CNG 111, Lot: 650. Estimate $300. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.82 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 2 BC-AD 12. Laureate head right / Caius and Lucius Caesars standing facing, two shields and two spears between them; above, on left, lituus right, and on right, simpulum left. RIC I 210; Lyon 85; RSC 43c. Good VF, toned, a few cleaning scratches, banker’s mark on reverse.

From the Ealing Collection, purchased from Baldwin’s, January 2011.