★ Well struck and unusually well preserved for the issue ★

Brutus, † 42 BC. Denarius (Silver, 19 mm, 3.79 g, 12 h), L. Plaetorius Cestianus, moneyer, military mint traveling with Brutus and Cassius in western Asia Minor or northern Greece, late summer-autumn 42. L•PLAET•CEST Laureate, draped and veiled bust of Ceres to right, surmounted by modius. Rev. BRVTVS•IMP Sacrificial axe and simpulum. Babelon (Junia) 51 and (Plaetoria) 12. Crawford 508/2. RBW 1781. Sydenham 1300. Well struck and unusually well preserved for the issue. Struck slightly off center, otherwise, extremely fine.

From a European collection, formed before 2005.