CNG 102, Lot: 822. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. February-March 44 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.97 g, 8h). Lifetime issue. Rome mint; P. Sepullius Macer, moneyer. Laureate and veiled head right; CAESAR downward to right, DICT PERPETVO upward to left / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory and scepter, to right at feet, shield set on ground; P • SEPVLLIVS downwards to right, MACER downwards to left. Crawford 480/13; Alföldi Type IX, 121–7 var. (A38/R– [unlisted rev. die]); CRI 107d; Sydenham 1074; RSC 39; RBW 1685. Good VF, toned, banker’s mark on reverse.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Dr. John Jacobs Collection (Superior, 13 August 1995), lot 684.

The last issue of Caesar’s lifetime coinage.