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Auction: 374 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NYINC
Lot: 411

Roman Imperatorial, C. Cossutius Massidianus, with Julius Caesar (February - March 44 BC), Posthumous Issue, AR Denarius, April 44 BC, Rome, CAESAR [PARE]NS • PATRIAE, veiled and wreathed head of Caesar right, apex behind head, lituus before chin, rev. C•COSSVTIV[S] MARIDI-ANVS in saltire, A A A F•F in angles, 3.94g, 8h (RRC 480/19; Sydenham 1069), struck on an elliptical elongated flan with peripheral striking softness below bust, and the reverse heavily off-struck, otherwise a wondrous coin, the portrait breathtakingly sharp and further accentuated by electrifying blue tone, a truly remarkable coin issued in the weeks immediately following the downfall of the Classical world's most enduring Dictator

Provenance
SNC, October 1992, no. 4882 - oval flan, not struck up on part of obv., but portrait very sharp, EF - £1,200

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Sold for
$4,200

Starting price
$1800