456, Lot: 336. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Caesarians. Julius Caesar. January-April 46 BC. AR Denarius (16.5mm, 3.97 g, 11h). Uncertain mint, possibly Utica. Head of Ceres right, wearing wreath of grain ears / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus; D (donativum = largess) to right. Crawford 467/1a; CRI 57; Sydenham 1023; RSC 4a; RBW 1637. Attractive iridescent toning, obverse die rust. Near EF.

From the Jack A. Frazer Collection. Ex Stack’s (7 December 1994), lot 2166 .