Triton XVI, Lot: 891. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-April 46 BC. AR Denarius (16mm, 3.92 g, 12h). Utica(?) mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing grain ear wreath; COS • TERT down left, DICT • ITER up right / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, capis, and lituus; M (
munus = gift) to right, AVGVR above, PONT • MAX below. Crawford 467/1b; CRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; Kestner 3639-40; BMCRR Africa 23-5; RSC 4. Good VF, toned, shallow edge test cut at about 1 o’clock.
From the Chiltern Collection.