Artistic Early Tiberius Aureus
Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.76 g, 10h). “Tribute Penny” type. Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Group 1, AD 15-18. TI CΛESΛR DIVI ΛVG F ΛVGVSTVS, laureate head right / PONTIF MΛXIM, Livia (as Pax) seated right on chair, holding scepter in right hand and olive branch in left; plain chair legs, double line below. RIC I 25; Lyon 143; Calicó 305d; BMCRE 30-3; BN 13-5. Choice EF, toned, underlying luster. Excellent early style portrait of artistic merit.
Ex Triton XIV (3 January 2011), lot 629.
