Ex Rich and Doheny Collections

CNG 111, Lot: 634. Estimate $5000. Sold for $6500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Divus Julius Caesar. 40 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.85 g, 11h). Rome mint; Q. Voconius Vitulus, moneyer. Laureate head right; lituus to left / Bull-calf walking left. Crawford 526/2; CRI 329; Sydenham 1132; RSC 46; RBW –. EF, attractive cabinet tone, small test cut on edge. Excellent portrait.

Ex Matthew Rich Collection (Triton XXI, 8 Januaury 2018), lot 670 (hammer $7000); Spink Australia 15 (27 March 1985), lot 962; Spink Australia (19 November 1981), lot 1569; Patrick A. Doheny Collection (Sotheby’s, 20 June 1979), lot 181.