Triton XVI, Lot: 803. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. C. Vibius C.f. C.n. Pansa Caetronianus. 48 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 4.07 g, 6h). Rome mint. Head of young Bacchus (Liber) right, wearing ivy wreath, tied with fillet, hair falling in two locks down neck; PANSA behind / Ceres, wearing wreath grain-ear wreath, in biga right, drawn by two serpents erect, holding reins in right hand and lighted torch in left; C • VIBIVS • C • F • C • N downwards to right. Crawford 449/3b; CRI 22a; Sydenham 945; Kestner 3549; BMCRR Rome 3975; Vibia 17. EF, attractively toned. Very rare variety.

From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 54 (24 March 2010), lot 254, (hammer 3000 CHF).