Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 910. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $350. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

C. Servilius C.f. 57 BC. AR Denarius (3.74 gm, 5h). Rome mint. FLORAL. PRIMVS before, head of Flora right, wearing flower-wreath, necklace of pendants, cruciform earring, and hair in bejewelled knot; lituus behind / C. SERVEIL. in exergue, C.F to right, two soldiers standing vis-à-vis, each holding a shield in left hand, sword upright in right; shield of the soldier to the right ornamented with six-pointed star. Crawford 423/1; Sydenham 890; Kestner 3448; BMCRR Rome 3817; CNR Servilia 19; Servilia 15. Good VF, toned. Exceptional strike. ($300)

From the Claude Collection.