Triton XXI, Lot: 652. Estimate $750. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. Lollius Palicanus. 45 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.94 g, 6h). Rome mint. Diademed head of Libertas right; LIBERTATIS downward to left / View of Rostra in the Roman Forum, ornamented with ships’ beaks and surmounted by subsellium (tribune’s bench); PALIKANI above. Crawford 473/1 var. (rev, legend); CRI 86; Sydenham 960a; Lollia 2a; RBW 1652. Near EF, attractive dark toning.

Ex Goldman Collection (Triton XVI, 7 January 2013), lot 825; Numismatica Ars Classica 40 (16 May 2007), lot 568; Aus dem Monetarium FPL (September 1991), no. 45; Peus 330 (24 April 1991), lot 982.