307, Lot: 280. Estimate $300. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. April-August 49 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.70 g, 11h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Elephant advancing right, trampling on horned serpent / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49. VF, toned, light porosity, scraped on elephant’s right foreleg.