Sale: CNG 61, Lot: 1560. Closing Date: Sep 25, 
2002.  L. Aemilius Buca. BID Estimate $2000  

L. Aemilius Buca. January 44 BC. AR Denarius (4.15 
gm). Diademed head of Venus Victrix right / 
Allegedly “Sulla’s Dream” - Reclining male figure 
left; before him, Luna seated left on rock, 
extending lighted torch in right hand; behind him, 
Victory standing almost to front, holding cursor’s 
long palmae staff in raised right hand. Crawford 
480/1; Sear, CRI 164; Sydenham 1064; Aemilia 12; 
A. Alföldi, Monarchie, pl. 1.1-4; Kraay, Num Chron 
1954, pl. 4, 3. Good VF, slightly uneven strike. 
Very rare. ($2000) 
From the Tony Hardy Collection.
Plutarch relates that while Sulla was marching on 
Rome in 82 B.C., “It is said, also, that there 
appeared to Sulla himself, in a dream, a certain 
godess, whom the Romans learnt to worship from the 
Cappadocians, whether it be the Moon, or Pallas, 
or Bellona. This same goddess, to his thinking, 
stood by him, and put into his hand thunder and 
lightning, then naming his enemies one by one, 
bade him strike them/” 
Copyright © CNG 2002

Lot sold for  $1750, plus buyers fees.

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