Well Struck Lifetime Julius Caesar
Triton XIX, Lot: 411. Estimate $15000. Sold for $14000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.79 g, 10h). Lifetime issue. Rome mint; P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. Wreathed head right; star of eight rays to left; CAESAR • IMP downward to right / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory on outstretched right hand and scepter set on star with left; P • SEPVLLIVS downward to right, MACER upward to left. Crawford 480/5b; Alföldi Type V, 116-9 (A37/R20); CRI 106a; Sydenham 1071; RSC 41; Bement 396 (same dies); RBW 1679. Near EF, minor traces of deposits, obverse struck with slightly worn die. Struck on a broad flan.