271, Lot: 40. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Caesarians. Octavian and Agrippa, with Divus Julius Caesar. 38 BC. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.68 g, 2h). Military mint traveling with Agrippa in Gaul or Octavian in Italy. DIVOS IVLIVS [D]IVI F, laureate head of the deified Julius Caesar vis-à-vis bare head of Octavian / M · AGRIPPA · CO[S]/DESIG in two lines. Crawford 534/2; CRI 306; Sydenham 1330; RSC 129. VF, toned, minor porosity. Rare.
Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Leu 71 (24 October 1997), lot 271; Numismatic Fine Arts FPL 36 (Spring 1989), no. 87; Gotha Collection (Monnaies et Médailles XIX, 5 June 1959), lot 177.