Ex Duke of Northumberland – Inventoried in 1856

Triton XIX, Lot: 419. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Republicans. Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.87 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece; Pedanius Costa, legate. Laureate head of Apollo to right; LEG upward to left, COSTA downward to right / Trophy composed of cuirass, crested helmet, oval shield with incurved sides, and two crossed spears; IMP upward to left, BRVTVS downward to right. Crawford 506/2; CRI 209; Sydenham 1296; RSC 4; RBW 1778; W.H. Smyth, Descriptive Catalogue of a Cabinet of Roman Family Coins belonging to His Grace the Duke of Northumberland, K.G. (1856), Tray IX, Coin 6 (this coin). VF, dark iridescent tone.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Classical Numsimatic Group Inventory 93226 (June 1996); Stack’s (10 June 1996), lot 475; Duke of Northumberland Collection (Sotheby’s, 4 November 1982), lot 480.