425, Lot: 371. Estimate $150. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.77 g, 7h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck circa 19 BC. Bare head right / IOV TON, hexastyle temple set on podium of three steps; Jupiter standing left within, holding thunderbolt and scepter. Cf. RIC I 63a (aureus); RSC 179. VF, attractive iridescent tone, hairline flan crack. Rare.

From the WRG Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (27 February 1985), lot 274.