Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1305. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $160. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

IONIA, Smyrna. Augustus, with Julia Augusta (Livia). 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Assarion (5.44 g, 12h). Dionysios Kollybas, magistrate. Conjoined laureate head of Augustus and draped bust of Livia right / Aphrodite Stratonikis standing facing, leaning on cippus, holding scepter and Nike; to right, dove left. RPC 2464; Klose XXIII, Series A, Group a, 7 (V1/R?). VF, olive patina with traces of black and red, light overall roughness.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection.