Triton XVI, Lot: 887. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late spring-early summer 48 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.65 g, 10h). Military mint traveling with Caesar in Spain. Laureate female head (Clementia?) right; LII to left / Gallic trophy, holding oval shield and carnyx surmonted by wolf’s head; at base, bound captive with head left and looking up seated right; CAE SAR across field. Crawford 452/5; CRI 13; RSC 19; Sydenham 1011; Kestner –; BMCRR Rome 3960. VF, toned, banker’s mark on cheek of obverse.

From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Goldberg 47 (25 May 2008), lot 1285; Karl Sifferman Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 76, 12 September 2007), lot 1267.