370, Lot: 357. Estimate $300. Sold for $2100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.36 g, 8h). Lifetime issue. Rome mint; P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. Wreathed head right; star of eight rays to left / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory and vertical scepter set on star. Crawford 480/5b; Alföldi Type V; CRI 106a; Sydenham 1071; RSC 41. Near VF, toned, bankers’ marks, some porosity. Bold portrait.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection, purchased from Lewis M. Reagen, ANA General Secretary, 1958.