401, Lot: 420. Estimate $200. Sold for $190. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-April 46 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.94 g, 7h). Uncertain mint, possibly Utica. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus; M (
munus = gift) to right. Crawford 467/1b; CRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; RSC 4. VF, toned, banker’s mark on Ceres’ neck.