Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 820. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.80 g, 6h). Spanish mint - Tarraco. Struck 17-16 BC. S • P • Q • R • CAESARI AVGVSTO, bare head left / QVOD • VIAE • MVN • SVNT •, double triumphal arch placed on viaduct, surmounted by Augustus, holding branch in right hand, crowned by Victory, who stands behind him, driving quadriga of horses right. RIC I 145; RSC 231; BMCRE 434 = BMCRR Rome 4464; BN 1253-4. Near EF, toned, a pair of shallow edge test cuts. Rare.

Ex Hess-Leu 49 (27 April 1971), lot 331.