Triton XVIII, Lot: 928. Estimate $750. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Memmius C.f. 56 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.79 g, 6h). Rome mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears, cruciform earring, and hair in knot, falling down neck in two locks; C • MEMMI • C • F downwards to right / Naked captive, his hands tied behind, kneeling right, on right knee, at foot of trophy of arms with a Greek shield; C • MEMMIVS downwards to right, IMPERATOR downwards to left. Crawford 427/1; Sydenham 920; Memmia 10; Kestner 3461-2; BMCRR Rome 3937-9; RBW 1531. Near EF, deep cabinet toning.

From the RAJ Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 920692 (February 2012); Deyo Collection (Triton XV, 4 January 2012), lot 1475; Dr. Frank J. Novak Collection (Classical Numismatic Group XXXI, 9 September 1994), lot 785.