343, Lot: 433. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.88 g, 8h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15 BC. Bare head right / Apollo Citharoedus of Actium, standing left, holding plectrum and lyre. RIC I 171a; Lyon 28/18a-19a; RSC 144a. Good VF, lightly toned, underlying luster. The rarer variety with IMP • X high across field.

From the Colin Kirk Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 147 (6 September 2006), lot 183; Numismatica Ars Classica I (19 May 1999), lot 1666.