CNG 105, Lot: 741. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Republicans. Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.73 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece; P. Servilius Casca Longus, moneyer. Laureate and bearded head of Neptune right; trident below / Victory advancing right on broken scepter, holding palm frond over shoulder and broken diadem bound with fillet with both hands. Crawford 507/2; CRI 212; Sydenham 1298; RSC 3. Near EF, toned, minor obverse metal flaws.
From the Collection of a Director. Reportedly ex Kunst und Münzen 14 (2 June 1975), lot 494.