Triton XXII, Lot: 940. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-April 46 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.74 g, 9h). Utica(?) mint. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears; COS • TERT downward to left, DICT • ITER upward to right / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus; M (munus = gift) to right, AVGVR above, PONT • MAX below. Crawford 467/1b; CRI 57a; Sydenham 1024; RSC 4; BMCRR Africa 23-5; RBW 1638. Superb EF, deep iridescent tone.

From the Alan J. Harlan Collection. Ex P.A. Collection (Hess-Divo 307, 8 June 2007), lot 1531; Münzen und Medaillen AG FPL 438 (1981), lot 35.