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106, Lot: 225. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Brutus. Summer 42 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.66 gm). Military mint moving with Brutus and Cassius in the East; L Sestius, proquaestor. Veiled and draped bust of Libertas right / Tripod between axe and simpulum. Crawford 502/2; CRI 201; Sydenham 1290; RSC 11. Near EF, numerous cleaning scratches.

This crudely struck coinage was issued for an army under the command of L. Sestius Quirinalis, son of a Pompeian commander, who joined forces with the tyrannicides. He nonetheless gained the pardon of Octavian after the downfall of Brutus, and later became a consul in 23 BC. Sestius is further known historically as the dedicated of one of Horace's odes (Carmina 1, 4).