256, Lot: 303. Estimate $150. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late 46-early 45 BC. Fourrée Denarius (18mm, 2.35 g, 6h). Military mint traveling with Caesar in Spain. Diademed and draped bust of Venus left; small Cupid on shoulder; lituus to left, scepter to right / Trophy consisting of Gallic arms and carnuces; to left, Gallic captive kneeling left, head right; to right, Gallia seated right in attitude of mourning. Crawford 468/2; CRI 59; Sydenham 1015; RSC 14. VF, toned, break in the silvering revealing the copper core.

From the C.W. Pearson Collection.