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November Auction 2015 13 November 2015
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REPUBLIC, SILVER DENARIUS OF L. HOSTILIUS SASERNA, Rome, ca. 48 BC, 3.924g, 6h. Crawford 448/2. Lightly toned. With a very powerful portrait of high quality. Insignificant peripheral weakness and scratches. Extremely fine
This fine head displays so much individual character that it is hard to regard it as anything other than an actual portrait, the model for which could hardly have been anyone other than Vercingetorix, the celebrated king of the Arverni, executed by the Romans.
This fine head displays so much individual character that it is hard to regard it as anything other than an actual portrait, the model for which could hardly have been anyone other than Vercingetorix, the celebrated king of the Arverni, executed by the Romans.