Watch List notes:

The Republicans. Brutus. Late summer-autumn 42 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.36 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece; Pedanius Costa, legate. Laureate head of Apollo right; LEG upward to left, COSTA downward to right / Trophy composed of cuirass, crested helmet, oval shield with incurved sides, and two crossed spears; IMP upward to left, BRVTVS downward to right. Crawford 506/2; CRI 209; Sydenham 1296; RSC 4; BMCRR East 59-61; RBW 1778. Deep cabinet toning, a few light marks and scratches beneath tone. VF.

From the Peter J. Merani Collection. Ex CNG inventory 200088 (April 2000); Classical Numismatic Auctions XV (5 June 1991), lot 473.