436, Lot: 504. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2025. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. April-August 49 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.80 g, 3h). Military mint traveling with Caesar. Elephant advancing right, trampling on horned serpent / Emblems of the pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, securis, and apex. Crawford 443/1; CRI 9; Sydenham 1006; RSC 49. EF, lightly toned. A remarkable example of this popular issue.

Ex Bill Behnen Collection (Freeman & Sear 17, 15 December 2009), lot 166.