CNG 112, Lot: 510. Estimate $750. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

M. Cato. 89 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.98 g, 6h). Rome mint. Diademed and draped female bust right / Victory seated right, holding palm frond and patera. Crawford 343/1b; Sydenham 596; Porcia 5; RBW 1297 var. (ST below seat). Lightly toned, traces of underlying luster, reverse struck with slightly rusty die. EF.

Ex Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection (Triton XVI, 8 January 2013), lot 764; Tkalec AG (8 September 2008), lot 173 (hammer CHF 2000).