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Moneyer issues of Imperatorial Rome. L. Aemilius Buca. January 44 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.93 g, 6h). Rome mint. Head of Venus right, wearing stephane; L • BVCA downward to left / Sulla's dream: in the foreground on left, Sulla reclining right against a rock, his left arm supporting his head; on right is seen Luna Lucifera, wearing crescent on head, descending left from a mountain, her veil floating above her head and holding lighted torch in right hand; Victory with spread wings standing facing in background, holding palm frond in raised right hand. Crawford 480/1; Alföldi Type I, 28-37 (A6/R6); CRI 164; Sydenham 1064; Aemilia 12; RBW 1677. EF, lightly toned, die break on neck. Extremely rare. Struck on a large flan.


Ex Goldman Collection (Triton XVI, 7 January 2013), lot 831; Varesi 51 (23 April 2008), lot 98; Numismatica Ars Classica 29 (11 May 2005), lot 400.