Ex C.G. and John Whitney Walter Collections

Triton XX, Lot: 778. Estimate $2000. Sold for $8000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Didius Julianus. AD 193. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.25 g, 12h). Rome mint. [I]MP CAES M DID IVLIAN AVG, laureate head right / RECTOR ORBIS, Didius Julianus, togate, standing left, holding globe in outstretched right hand and volumen with left. RIC IV 3; BMCRE 7-8; RSC 15. EF, lightly toned, metal flaw on the reverse. Wonderful portrait. Rare.

From the KD Collection. Ex C.G. Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 80, 20 October 2014), lot 119; Collection of a Friend of the Romans (Münzen und Medaillen AG 92, 22 November 2002), lot 121; Berk BBS 66 (11 June 1991), lot 276; John Whitney Walter Collection (Stack’s, 29 November 1990), lot 59; Sternberg XVIII (20 November 1986), lot 521.