Portraits of Julius Caesar

Triton XVI, Lot: 895. Estimate $5000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January 44 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.96 g, 3h). Rome mint. M. Mettius, moneyer. Wreathed head right; lituus to left; CAESAR DICT QVART around / Juno Sospita, wearing goat skin headdress, in galloping biga right, brandishing spear in right hand and holding shield in left; M METTIVS in exergue. Crawford 480/2a; Alföldi Type II, 10 (A3/R3); CRI 98; RSC 36; Sydenham 1057; Kestner –; BMCRR Rome 4135-6. EF, lightly toned, reverse slightly off center.

From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Tkalec (8 September 2008), lot 178 (where it realized CHF 14,000).