Triton XXII, Lot: 937. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late spring-early summer 48 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 4.06 g, 7h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Diademed female head (Clementia?) right, wearing oak wreath; LII (= 52, Caesar's age) to left / Gallic trophy, holding oval shield and carnyx surmonted by wolf’s head; securis to right; CAE SAR across lower field. Crawford 452/2; CRI 11; RSC 18; Sydenham 1009; Kestner 3558-3559; BMCRR Rome 3955; RBW –. EF, deep cabinet toning with area of find patina.
From the Alan J. Harlan Collection. Ex Tkalec (19 February 2001), lot 225.