Rare Julius Caesar Quinarius
302, Lot: 330. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late spring-early summer 48 BC. AR Quinarius (14mm, 1.65 g, 6h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Veiled female head (Vesta?) right; behind, LII (=52, Caesar's age) above simpulum / Trophy; wreath to left, ancile to right. Crawford 452/3; CRI 14; Sydenham 1012; RSC 16. Fine, porous. Rare.