From the Gemini V Auction, Closed January 6, 2009.

Lot # 777 Estimate: US$48000

M. Brutus, struck by L. Plaetorius Cestianus. Silver denarius (3.50 
gm). Military mint, 43-42 BC. Bare head of Brutus right, BRVT IMP 
above, L PLAET CEST behind / Pileus (cap of Liberty) flanked by two 
daggers, [E]ID MAR below. Crawford 508/3. Sydenham 1301 (R9). Cohen 
15 (350 Fr.). Sear, Imperators 216. H.A. Cahn, EIDibus MARtiis, 
Quaderni ticinesi XVIII, 1989, p. 219, 20a-d, pl. III (our die 
pair). Of considerable rarity: Cahn’s corpus includes just 56 
denarii of this type, from seven obverse dies and 25 reverse dies. 
Very strong portrait with full detail. E and part of I in Eid Mar 
removed by a scrape from 6:00 to 9:00 on the reverse. Light 
consistent porosity, otherwise extremely fine. 

Lot 777 sold for $50,000, or approx 42,550 EUR, £39,100 GBP (net)

Gemini Auctions' results, text and images are re-used by the kind permission of:
    Freeman & Sear (www.freemanandsear.com)
 and Harlan J Berk (www.harlanjberk.com)