Triton XVIII, Lot: 956. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. 40 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.79 g, 9h). Rome mint; Ti. Sempronius Gracchus, quaestor designatus. Wreathed head right; S C flanking neck / Signum, aquila, plow, and decempeda (measuring rod); TI • SEMPRONIVS above; GRACCVS in exergue; • Q • DESIG to left. Crawford 525/4a; CRI 327a; Sydenham 1129; RSC 47; Kestner 3636; BMCRR Rome 4319; RBW 1811; CNR 11/5. VF, toned, some porosity, evidence of possible prior mounting. Very rare.

From the D. Fagan Collection.