Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1339. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. January 44 BC. AR Denarius (3.85 g, 12h). Rome mint. M. Mettius, moneyer. Laureate head right; lituus behind / Juno Sospita driving galloping biga right, brandishing spear and shield. Crawford 480/2a; CRI 98; Sydenham 1057; RSC 36. VF, light gray toning, banker’s marks, minor flan flaws, slight die shift on obverse, area of flat strike at bottom. Rare.

This is the first portrait of Julius Caesar to appear on his coinage.