324, Lot: 342. Estimate $300. Sold for $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-April 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.94 g, 6h). Utica(?) mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus; M (
munus = gift) to right. Crawford 467/1b; CRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; RSC 4. Good VF, toned.
From the Demetrios Armounta Collection. Ex New York Sale XIV (10 January 2007), lot 216.
A parallel issue carries a “D” (donativum = largess) in place of the “M”. Both were struck as payment to Caesar’s veterans.