Triton XX, Lot: 403. Estimate $1000. Sold for $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

KINGS of MAURETANIA. Juba II, with Kleopatra Selene. 25 BC-AD 24. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.23 g, 6h). Caesarea mint. Struck AD 11-23. REX IVBA, diademed head of Juba right / BACIΛI KΛEOΠATPA, head of Kleopatra Selene right. Mazard 369/370 (same obv./rev. die); cf. MAA 107; SNG Copenhagen –. VF. Very rare with these portrait styles.

From the Kallman Collection. Ex Triton XIV (4 January 2011), lot 397.

Juba II proved himself one of Rome’s most loyal client kings, and in AD 11 Augustus honored him with marriage to Kleopatra Selene, the daughter of Kleopatra VII and Mark Antony. The resulting son, Ptolemy, succeeded Juba II in AD 24, and was the last of the Ptolemaic line.