CNG 100, Lot: 1808. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. L. Plautius Plancus. 47 BC. AR Denarius (16mm, 3.76 g, 5h). Rome mint. Facing mask of Medusa with disheveled hair, without serpents / Victory (or winged Aurora) flying right, head slightly left, holding reins and conducting four rearing horses of the sun. Crawford 453/1c; CRI 29a; Sydenham 959b; Plautia 14. EF, handsome gray and iridescent blue toning, traces of die rust and a short, shallow scratch on obverse. Artistic dies.

From the R.H. Collection. Ex Hess-Divo 307 (8 June 2007), lot 1516; Auctiones 13 (23 June 1983), lot 594.