Dynastic Denarius

Triton XIX, Lot: 473. Estimate $20000. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.86 g, 6h). Rome mint; C. Marius C.f. Tro(mentina tribu), moneyer. Struck 13 BC. AVGVSTVS, bare head right; lituus to left / C • MA[R]IVS • TR-O below, III VIR above, bare heads right of Lucius, Julia, and Caius; wreath above Julia. RIC I 404; RSC 1 (Caius, Lucius, Julia, and Augustus); BMCRE 106 = BMCRR Rome 4650; BN 526. Good VF, area of weakness on obverse and corresponding reverse, banker’s mark on neck. Exceptional metal for issue. Very rare.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Triton XI (8 January 2008), lot 796; Jacquier FPL 17 (Autumn 1995), no. 384.