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374, Lot: 313. Estimate $200.
Sold for $360. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EASTERN EUROPE, Imitations of Roman Imperial. Uncertain Tribe. After 19 BC. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.49 g, 6h). Reverse imitating Q. Rusticus issue of Augustus. Laureate head left of Roman style; pseudo-legend to left / Altar; pseudo-legend around and within. Unpublished in the standard references, but for prototype of reverse, cf. RIC I 322. VF, toned, porous, a couple flan flaws and marks. Very rare.


From the RBW Collection. Ex Hirsch 284 (26 September 2012), lot 2122.

The obverse portrait seems most similar to the right-facing busts of Julius Caesar.