L PLAUTIUS PLANCUS SILVER DENARIUS – GORGON AND AURORA ISSUE PUBLISHED IN FERNANDEZ-MOLINA AS PLATE COIN – AU 5-5 5-5 NGC GRADED ROMAN REPUBLIC COIN (Inv. 20270)

$3,750.00

20270. ROMAN REPULIC. L. PLAUTIUS PLANCUS, ca. 47 BC.
Silver Denarius, 3.86 g., 18 mm.
Obv. L PLAVTIVS, facing head of Medusa. Rev. PLANCVS, Aurora (“Dawn”), flying, leading onward the horses of Sol, the sun.
Crawford 453/1b; Sydenham 959; Plautia 14; RBW 1583–4
Ex. CNG 121, 10/8/2022, lot 748 = ex Roma XVII, 3/28/2019, lot 679 = Marian A. Sinton Collection, Triton III, 11/30/1999, lot 936.
Published: J. Fernandez–Molina et al, A Guide to the Denarii of the Roman Republic to Augustus (2002), 1004 (this coin illustrated).
NGC graded AU, Strike 5/5, Surface 5/5, exceptional in every way, with gentle iridescence throughout, a plate coin in Fernandez–Molina’s guide to early Roman denarii.