Ex Voirol and Magnaguti Collections

Triton XXII, Lot: 939. Estimate $5000. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Early 46 BC. AV Aureus (21mm, 7.94 g, 8h). Rome mint; A. Hirtius, praetor. Veiled female head (Vesta or Pietas?) right; C • CAESAR COS TER around / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: lituus, guttus, and securis; A HIRTIVS • PR around from lower left. Crawford 466/1; Molinari 240 (D26/R227–this coin); CRI 56; Calicó 37b; Sydenham 1018; BMCRR Rome 4052; RBW 1634. Near EF, toned.

Ex August Voirol Collection (Münzen und Medaillen AG 38, 6 December 1968), lot 261; Conte Alessandro Magnaguti Collection (Part II, Santamaria, 12 October 1949), lot 279.