Extremely Rare Head Left

343, Lot: 436. Estimate $200. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.69 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 8 BC. Laureate head left / Caius Caesar on horseback, galloping right, holding sword and reins; to left, an aquila between two signa. RIC I 199 var. (head right); cf. Lyon 70 (aureus); RSC 40 var. (head right). VF, toned, struck off center, some green deposits on reverse. Unpublished with head left, for another example see Triton XI, lot 853.

From the Colin Kirk Collection. Ex Richard Prideaux Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 188, 28 May 2008), lot 333.