CNG 88, Lot: 1197. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Republicans. Brutus. Late Summer-Autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.55 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece. P. Servilius Casca Longus, moneyer. Laureate and bearded head of Neptune right; trident below / Victory advancing right on broken scepter, holding palm frond and broken diadem bound with fillet. Crawford 507/2; CRI 212; Sydenham 1298; RSC 3. Near EF, toned, some porosity and scratches.

From the Sierra Collection. Ex Ponterio 133 (14 January 2005), lot 1481.