256, Lot: 302. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-April 46 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 4.04 g, 6h). Utica(?) mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing grain wreath / Priestly implements: simpulum, aspergillum, capis, and lituus; M (
munus = gift) to right. Crawford 467/1b; CRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; RSC 4. VF, toned.
From the C.W. Pearson Collection.
A parallel issue contain a “D” (donativum = largess) in place of the “M”. Both were intended as payment to Caesar’s veterans.