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CNG 105, Lot: 734. Estimate $3000.
Sold for $21000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-February 44 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.45 g, 3h). Lifetime issue. Rome mint; M. Mettius, moneyer. Wreathed head right; lituus and simpulum to left; CAESAR IM[P] downward to right / Venus Victrix standing left, holding Victory in outstretched right hand and transverse scepter in left, resting her left elbow on shield set on celestial globe; L to left, M • METTIVS downward to right. Crawford 480/3; Alföldi Type III, 125-7 (A18/R43); CRI 100; Sydenham 1056; RSC 34. Good VF, toned, minor porosity, reverse struck with a clashed die. Well struck.