Interesting Mule Fourrée Denarius

401, Lot: 422. Estimate $100. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late 46-early 45 BC. Fourrée Denarius (18mm, 2.84 g, 8h). Contemporary imitation. Uncertain mint. Facing mask of Medusa with disheveled hair, without serpents / Trophy of Gallic arms, composed of helmet and cuirass, oval shield and carnyx in each hand; two seated captives at base, the one on left a female in attitude of dejection, the one on right a bearded male with hands bound behind him. Obverse prototype: cf. Crawford 453/1c; cf. CRI 29a; cf. Sydenham 959b; cf. Plautia 14; Reverse prototype: cf. Crawford 468/1; cf. CRI 58; cf. Sydenham 1014; cf. RSC 13. Fine, toned, plating broken in several places.

An interesting contemporary imitation, muling the obverse of a denarius of L. Plautius Plancus (47 BC), and the reverse of a Julius Caesar denarius.