421, Lot: 577. Estimate $150. Sold for $380. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

M. Plaetorius M.f. Cestianus. 57 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.93 g, 6h). Rome mint. Draped bust of Ceres(?) right, wearing hair decorated with poppies; to left, stork standing right / Capis and lighted torch. Crawford 405/4b; Sydenham 803; Plaetoria 7; RBW 1452 var. (symbol on obv.). VF, lightly toned, bankers’ marks on obverse, reverse die rust.

From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection.