From the Leo Benz Collection

271, Lot: 33. Estimate $750. Sold for $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-April 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.94 g, 5h). Uncertain mint, possibly Utica. DICT · ITER COS · TERT, head of Ceres right, wearing grain wreath / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, capis, and lituus; AVGVR above, PONT · MAX below, M (munus = gift) to right. Crawford 467/1b; CRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; RSC 4. EF, attractively toned, a few minor marks.

Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Leo Benz Collection (Lanz 88, 23 November 1998), lot 759.

A parallel issue carries a “D” (donativum = largess) in place of the “M”. Both were struck as payment to Caesar’s veterans.