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286, Lot: 313. Estimate $300.
Sold for $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Fourrée Denarius (17mm, 2.95 g, 9h). Imitating a Rome mint issue of 16 BC. L. Mescinius Rufus, moneyer. Bare head of Augustus facing slightly right, within oak wreath / Mars, wearing crested helmet, naked except for a cloak falling over his right arm, standing left on low pedestal, holding spear in right hand and parazonium in left; S P Q R/V PR RE/CAES in three lines on pedestal. Cf. RIC I 356/351 (obv. /rev.); cf. RSC 465/463a (obv./rev.). Good Fine, darkly toned, a few breaks in the plating. Very rare and interesting.


From the R. D. Frederick Collection.