385, Lot: 467. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Republicans. Brutus. Early summer 42 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.64 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus in Lycia. Draped bust of Apollo right; lyre to right; C•FLAV• HEMI[C•] LEG•PRO•PR around / Trophy composed of helmet, cuirass, shield with incurved sides, and two swords, being crowned with wreath by Victory standing left, holding palm frond in left hand over left shoulder; Q•CAEP• in exergue; BRVT• upward to right; IMP• downward to left. Crawford 504/1; CRI 205; Sydenham 1294; RSC 7; Type as RBW 1771. Good VF, toned, thin flan crack. Rare.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Gasvoda Collection, Part I (Numismatica Ars Classica 86, 8 October 2015), lot 22; Roma V (23 March 2013), lot 623; Künker 216 (8 October 2012), lot 721; Numismatica Ars Classica 59 (4 April 2011), lot 1802; Classical Numismatic Group 76 (12 September 2007), lot 1296.

As with my P. Crassus Cr. 430 denarius, this is another case where I’ve chosen to let go of a coin in exceptional condition, but in this case, it is in favor of a much more worn coin that I found to have an exceptional provenance. [A. McCabe]