Triton XX, Lot: 552. Estimate $5000. Sold for $40000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. L. Valerius Acisculus. 45 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.59 g, 1h). Rome mint. Laureate head of Jupiter right; pickax (acisculus) to left; ACISCVLVS downward around left; all within laurel wreath / Anguipedic giant facing, holding with right hand a thunderbolt that has pierced his side and raising left hand; L • VALERIVS in exergue. Crawford 474/4; CRI 93; Sydenham 1003; Valeria 21; Kestner –; BMCRR Rome 4114; RBW –. VF, iridescent toning, small areas of weak strike at periphery, banker’s mark to right of Jupiter’s head. Very rare.

From the collection of a director.