343, Lot: 418. Estimate $500. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Spring-early summer 36 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.92 g, 6h). Southern or central Italian mint. Bareheaded and bearded head right / Tetrastyle temple of Divus Julius: statue of Julius Caesar as augur standing within temple; DIVO • IVL on architrave, star within pediment, figures along roof line; lighted altar to left. Crawford 540/2; CRI 315; Sydenham 1338; RSC 90. VF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse.

From the Colin Kirk Collection.