397, Lot: 443. Estimate $300. Sold for $575. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-April 46 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.90 g, 3h). Uncertain mint, possibly Utica. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus; D (
donativum = largess) to right. Crawford 467/1a; CRI 57; Sydenham 1023; RSC 4a. VF, toned.
From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.22850.