Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 784. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.82 g, 6h). Rome mint. L. Vinicius, moneyer. Struck 16 BC. Equestrian statue of Augustus riding right on a low square pedestal inscribed S • P • Q • R/IMP/CAES in three lines; all before city wall with arched entrance / L • VINICIVS L • F • III • VIR, cippus inscribed S • P • Q • R/IMP • CAE/QVOD • V/M • S • EX/EA • P • QIS/AD • A • DE in six lines. RIC I 362; RSC 543; BMCRE 82-4 = BMCRR Rome 4472-3; BN 357-61. Good VF, deep brown-gray toning, minor deposits, flan a little irregular.