370, Lot: 354. Estimate $200. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. April-August 49 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.02 g, 3h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Elephant advancing right, trampling on horned serpent / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49. Good VF, toned, obverse struck off center.
From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection. Ex Hans M.F. Schulman (14 February 1958), lot 2199.