Triton XVI, Lot: 787. Estimate $500. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

M. Aemilius Scaurus and Pub. Plautius Hypsaeus. 58 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 4.08 g, 6h). Rome mint. Nabatean King Aretas kneeling right, holding reins in left hand and olive branch tied with fillet in extended right hand before camel standing right; [M] • SCAVR/AED CVR above; EX S C across field; REX ARETAS in exergue / Jupiter driving galloping quadriga left, holding reins in left hand and hurling thunderbolt with right; P HVPSAE/AED CVR in two lines above; CAPTV upwards to right; C HVPSAE CO[S]/PREI[VE] in two lines in exergue. Crawford 422/1b; Sydenham 913; Kestner 3440-6; BMCRR Rome 3878; Aemilia 8. Choice EF, toned, die break across central reverse.

From a Continental Collection, acquired in the trade in 1981.