Illustrated in Alföldi

Triton XVI, Lot: 898. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.21 g, 9h). Rome mint. L. Aemilius Buca, moneyer. Wreathed head of Caesar right; CAESAR • IM downwards before, large crescent dividing P M upwards behind / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory on extended right hand and holding scepter in left; L • AEMILIVS • BVCA around. Crawford 480/4; Alföldi Type IV, 141 (A24/R15 – this coin, illustrated); CRI 102; Sydenham 1060; Kestner 3685; BMCRR Rome 4152-3; RSC 22. VF, toned, minor flatness on Caesar’s laurel wreath.

From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (13 December 2006), lot 157; Joseph Martini Collection (R. Ratto, 24 February 1930), lot 1268.