Triton XVI, Lot: 796. Estimate $300. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

A. Plautius. 55 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.87 g, 1h). Rome mint. Turreted head of Cybele right, wearing cruciform earring, hair in knot, locks falling down neck; AED • CVR • S • C down left, A • PLAVTIVS down right / Bacchius kneeling right beside his camel, holding reins in left hand and extending olive branch upward in right; IVDAEVS upwards to right, BACCHIVS in exergue. Crawford 431/1; Sydenham 932; Kestner 3479-3480; BMCRR Rome 3916-9; Plautia 13. EF, lustrous. areas of minor weak strike.

From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Antiqua XIV (undated [2007]), no. 116; Gemini II (11 January 2006), lot 263.