Sale: CNG 73, Lot: 795. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 13 September 2006.  Sold For $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Q. Cassius Longinus. 55 BC. AR Denarius (3.93 g, 3h). Rome mint. Veiled head of Vesta right / Curule chair within temple of Vesta; urn to left, voting tablet inscribed AC to right. Crawford 428/1; Sydenham 917; Cassia 9. VF, handsome, old gray cabinet toning, a tiny area of edge smoothing. Rare.

From the Alexandre de Barros Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 61 (25 September 2002), lot 1480; Tony Hardy Collection.