Triton XIX, Lot: 398. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Coelius Caldus. 53 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.80 g, 1h). Rome mint. Bare head of the consul C. Coelius Caldus right; to left, signum inscribed HIS; below chin, boar atop signum; C • COEL • CALDVS to right / Veiled figure seated left on lectisternium inscribed L • CALDVS/VII • (VR) • EP(VL) in two lines; trophies flanking; C CALDVS vertically to outer left, I(MP) • A • X vertically to outer right, C(ALDV)S • III V[IR] in exergue. Crawford 437/2a; Sydenham 894; Coelia 7; RBW 1551. Near EF, wonderful old cabinet tone. Well centered and struck for issue.