Triton XX, Lot: 534. Estimate $2000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Faustus Cornelius Sulla. 56 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.92 g, 5h). Rome mint. Diademed and draped bust of Diana right, wearing cruciform earring, necklace of pendants, and her hair collected into a knot at back of head, which is decorated with jewels, other jewels in hair above forehead; lituus to left, FAVSTVS downward to right / Sulla, togate, seated left on raised seat; on left, Bocchus, king of Mauretania, kneels right, offering an olive branch; to right, Jugurtha, king of Numidia, kneeling left, his hands tied behind him; FELIX above on right. Crawford 426/1; Sydenham 879; Cornelia 59; Kestner 3455; BMCRR Rome 3824; RBW 1525. EF, deep iridescent toning.

From the Dr. Patrick H. C. Tan Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 84 (20 May 2015), lot 811.