Triton XIX, Lot: 395. Estimate $750. Sold for $780. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.11 g, 6h). Rome mint. Diademed and draped bust of Diana right, wearing cruciform earring, necklace of pendants, and her hair collected into a knot at back of head, which is decorated with jewels, other jewels in hair above forehead; lituus to left, FAVSTVS downward to right / Sulla, togate, seated left on raised seat; on left, Bocchus, king of Mauretania, kneels right, offering an olive branch; to right, Jugurtha, king of Numidia, kneeling left, his hands tied behind him; FELIX above on right. Crawford 426/1; Sydenham 879; Cornelia 59; RBW 1525. Near EF, toned, areas of minor flatness of strike.