Caesar Returns to Rome

Triton XXII, Lot: 936. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. April-August 49 BC. AR Denarius (16.5mm, 3.95 g, 8h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Elephant advancing right, trampling on horned serpent; CAESAR in exergue / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49; BMCRR Gaul 27-30; RBW 1557. Choice EF, toned, faint banker’s mark on reverse.

From the Alan J. Harlan Collection. Ex Antiqua XIV (2006), no. 119.