Triton XVIII, Lot: 954. Estimate $1000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. March-April 44 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.81 g, 5h). Rome mint; M. Mettius, moneyer. Wreathed head right; CAESAR downward to right; IMPER upward to left / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory in outstretched right hand and transverse scepter in left, resting her left elbow on shield set on celestial globe; D to left, M • METTIVS downward to right. Crawford 480/17; Alföldi Type XVI, 35 (A5/R25); CRI 101; Sydenham 1055; RSC 35; Kestner –; BMCRR Rome 4137-42; RBW 1686 var. (letter); CNR 125/3 (same rev. die). VF, toned, reverse double struck, some porosity. An issue struck in the days following Caesar’s assassination.

From the RAJ Collection. Ex Fred Shore FPL 88 (2005), no 28.