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Auction X  13 January 2013
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Lot 305

Estimate: 7500 USD
Price realized: 17 000 USD
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Julius Caesar, struck by P. Clodius. Denarius, 3.91g. (8h). Rome, 42 BC. Obv: IMP - CAESAR Wreathed head of Caesar right. RX: P CLODIVS - M F Mars standing facing, head turned left, wearing helmet and holding spear in right hand and sword in scabbard in left hand. Crawford 494/16. Sydenham 1123. Sear, Imperators 114. Cohen 37 (100 Fr.). Some light porosity. About EF.

Ex Randy Haviland Collection. Privately purchased from Harlan J. Berk, November 2004.

Extremely rare; the rarest reverse of all Caesar portrait denarii. The present cataloguer is aware of only two other examples offered in the past 20 years, one in very low grade.
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