Outstanding Portrait

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 885. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius. AD 14-37. Æ As (10.70 g, 8h). Rome mint. Struck AD 36-37. TI CAESAR • DIVI • AVG • F • AVGVST • IMP • VIII, laureate head left / PONTIF MAX • TR • above, POT • XXXIIX below, S C across field, rudder placed vertically across diagonally banded globe; small globe at base of rudder. RIC I 64; BMCRE 136-137; BN 123; Cohen 14 corr. (TRIBVN POTEST instead of TR POT). EF, wonderful dark green patina. Amazing portrait.

Ex Sternberg XXVIII (with Freeman & Sear, 30 October 1995), lot 16.