CNG 108, Lot: 524. Estimate $7500. Sold for $11000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Special issues. L. Cestius and C. Norbanus. May-August 43 BC. AV Aureus (20mm, 8.05 g, 9h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Sibyl(?) right, hair in bands and knotted behind; C • NORBANVS above, PR to right, L • CESTIVS below / Cybele, turreted, holding patera, enthroned on car drawn by two lions left; S • C to upper left. Crawford 491/2; CRI 196; Calicó 5a; Sydenham 1155; BMCRR Rome 4194; RBW 1719; Biaggi 25. Near EF, underlying luster, light surface roughness.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 41 (20 November 2007), lot 23; Marian A. Sinton Collection (Triton III, 30 December 1999), lot 829.