Triton XXI, Lot: 695. Estimate $7500. Sold for $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (26mm, 12.12 g, 11h). Pergamum mint. Struck 19-18 BC. IMP • IX • TR • PO • V •, bare head right / Triumphal Arch of Augustus, surmounted by charioteer in facing quadriga; an aquila before each side wall; IMP • IX • TR • POT • V • on entablature; S • P • R • /SIGNIS/RECEPTIS in three lines below. RIC I 510; Sutherland Group VIIα, – (dies xi/– [unlisted rev. die; obv. die listed for Group VIIγ]); RSC 298; RPC I 2218; BMCRE 703 = BMCRR East 310; BN 982-3 and 985. EF, even dark gray tone, with light golden hues around the devices, a couple scratches under tone. Attractive style.

Ex Dorotheum (16 November 2016), lot 142. Reportedly ex Ernst Justus Haeberlin Collection (not in Cahn or Cahn & Hess sales).