Ex Garrett Collection

366, Lot: 12. Estimate $300. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ANCIENT COINS USED IN INDIA & INDIAN IMITATIONS. Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (21mm, 6.81 g, 4h). Indian imitation of a Lugdunum mint “Tribute Penny” type. TI CΛESR D(retrograde F)IVI ΛVC C ΛVCTVΓ(inverted T), laureate head right, one ribbon on shoulder / (retrograde TIF)ΛΛP(retrograde P) to left, MIXΛM to right, Livia (as Pax), holding scepter in right hand, olive branch in left, seated left on chair, feet on footstool; ornate chair legs, single line below. Cf. RIC I 29; cf. Lyon 149; cf. Calicó 305a (all refs for official issue); L.A. Adams, “The Indian Imitations of Roman Aurei,” SAN, Vol. XVII, No. 4 (September 1989), Fig. 1 (this coin). Near VF.

From the collection of Dr. Lawrence A. Adams. Ex John Work Garrett Collection (Part 1, Numismatic Fine Arts/Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 717.