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Numa Pompilius

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 790. Estimate $3000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Dupondius (14.90 g, 9h). Rome mint. Cn. Piso Cn. f., moneyer. Struck 15 BC. CAESAR • AVGVSTVS TRIBVNIC POTEST, bare head of Augustus right / CN • PISO • CN • F • III • VIR • A • A • A • F • F •, diademed head of Numa Pompilius right, wearing long beard. RIC I 394; BMCRE p. 28, † = BMCRR Rome -; cf. BN 433 (incomplete legends); CNR II 92 (this coin). VF, dark green and brown patina, minor roughness. Extremely rare.


Ex V.J.E. Ryan Collection (Glendining, 2 April 1952), lot 2250; Giuseppe Mazzini Collection, 379.