149, Lot: 322. Estimate $300. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. 47-46 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.89 g). Military mint traveling with Caesar in North Africa. Diademed head of Venus right / Aeneas walking left, carrying Anchises and palladium. Crawford 458/1; CRI 55; Sydenham 1013; RSC 12. Near EF, lightly toned, obverse graffiti, flan flaw.

From the Harry Strickhausen Collection.