CNG 90, Lot: 1384. Estimate $300. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late spring-early summer 48 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.98 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Diademed female head (Clementia?) right; LII (= 52, Caesar's age) behind / Gallic trophy, holding oval shield and carnyx; securis to right. Crawford 452/2; CRI 11; Sydenham 1009; RSC 18. VF, toned, die break, two cuts, and smoothing in field on obverse.

From the Bruce R. Brace Collection, purchased from Spink in 1959.