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Artistic Portrait

Triton XIV, Lot: 618. Estimate $10000.
Sold for $27000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.83 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 10 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, laureate head right / IMP • XII in exergue, bull butting right, lashing his tail. RIC I 186a; Lyon 51; Calicó 222; BMCRE 471 = BMCRR Gaul 184; BN 1431-2. Near EF, lovely toning, a few marks, scuffs on edge possibly from prior bezel. Artistic portrait.


Ex Richard Prideaux Collection (Triton XI, 8 January 2008), lot 845.