Triton XVI, Lot: 924. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Republicans. Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.89 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece. P. Servilius Casca Longus, moneyer. Laureate and bearded head of Neptune right; trident below; CASCA up left, LONGVS up right / Victory advancing right on broken scepter, holding palm frond in left hand over left shoulder and broken diadem bound with fillet in both hands; BRVTVS up left, IMP up right. Crawford 507/2; CRI 212; RSC 3; Sydenham 1298; Kestner 3779; BMCRR East 63-65. Good VF, toned.
From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 618; Classical Numismatic Group XXXIII (15 March 1995), lot 676.