Triton XXII, Lot: 953. Estimate $3000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Republicans. Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.91 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece. P. Servilius Casca Longus, moneyer. Laureate and bearded head of Neptune right; trident below; CASCA upward to left, LONGVS upward to right / Victory advancing right on broken scepter, holding palm frond in left hand over left shoulder and broken diadem bound with fillet with both hands; BRVTVS upward to left, IMP upward to right. Crawford 507/2; CRI 212; Sydenham 1298; RSC 3; BMCRR East 63-65; RBW 1780. EF, attractive cabinet toning.
From the Alan J. Harlan Collection. Ex Waddell FPL 67 (1995), lot 55; Lanz 72 (29 May 1995), lot 446.