CNG 91, Lot: 840. Estimate $200. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. Mn. Cordius Rufus. 46 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.02 g, 4h). Rome mint. Conjoined heads of the Dioscuri right, wearing laureate pilei surmounted by stars / Venus Verticordia standing left, holding scales and scepter; Cupid on her shoulder. Crawford 463/1a; CRI 63; Sydenham 976; Cordia 2a. Near EF, bright surfaces beginning to tone, obverse struck from a rusty die, die break on reverse, contact mark on leg of Venus.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 52 (7 October 2009), lot 882.