448, Lot: 407. Estimate $300. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. Late 48-47 BC. AR Denarius (17.5mm, 3.62 g, 6h). Military mint traveling with Caesar in North Africa. Diademed head of Venus right / Aeneas advancing left, holding palladium and bearing Anchises on his shoulder. Crawford 458/1; CRI 55; Sydenham 1013; RSC 12; RBW 1600. Iridescent tone, banker’s mark on obverse, some horn silver and minor marks, tooling on reverse. VF.

Ex Coin Galleries (15 July 1998), lot 307.