158, Lot: 199. Estimate $100. Sold for $205. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 30-29 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.59 g). Italian mint, possibly Rome. Laureate head of Apollo right / Octavian, as pontifex, driving yoke of oxen right, plowing furrow. RIC I 272; CRI 424; BMCRE 638; RSC 117. Near VF, obverse banker’s mark, light porosity, recently cleaned.