Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 709. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $4100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

JULIUS CAESAR. 45 BC. AV Aureus (8.10 g, 7h). Rome mint. L. Munatius Plancus, urban prefect. Draped bust of Victory right, wearing taenia / Ewer right; L PLANC up left, PR VRB down right. Crawford 475/1b; CRI 60a; Sydenham 1019b; Calicó 44. VF. ($3000)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.

Plancus was a friend of Caesar and served under him in the Gallic and Civil Wars. He was consul in 42 BC according to the arrangement made by Caesar and then followed Antony to Asia, but deserted him in 32 shortly before the outbreak of civil war with Octavian. Plancus resided in Rome for the rest of his life, and it was on his proposal that Octavian received the title Augustus in 27 BC.