Triton XVI, Lot: 919. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Republicans. Brutus. Early 42 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.01 g, 12h). Military mint, probably at Smyrna. P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther, legate. Securis, simpulum, and secespita; BRVTVS below / Capis and lituus; LENTVLVS/SPINT in two lines below. Crawford 500/7; CRI 198; Sydenham 1310; Kestner 3770; BMCRR East 80-1; RSC 6. Choice EF, lustrous, just beginning to tone toward the edges.

From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Berk BBS 155 (31 July 2007), lot 210.