Bold Lifetime Portrait

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 542. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Julius Caesar. January-February, 44 BC. AR Denarius (3.96 g, 7h). Rome mint, L. Aemilius Buca, moneyer. CAESAR. IM P(crescent)M, laureate head right / L. AEMILIVS BVCA, Venus standing left, holding Victory in extended right hand, scepter in left. Crawford 480/4; Alföldi Type IV, 49-50 (A6/R2); CRI 102; Sydenham 1060; Kestner 3685; BMCRR Rome 4152-4153; RSC 22. EF, excellent silver quality. Bold portrait.