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63, Lot: 56. Estimate $150.
Sold for $155. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUGUSTUS. 27 BC-14 AD. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.68 gm). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 2 BC-4 AD. Laureate head right / Gaius and Lucius standing, facing; shield and spears between them; simpulum and lituus above. RIC I 207; RSC 43. VF.

This type commemorates Gaius and Lucius Caesars, the grandsons of Augustus by Marcus Agrippa, as heirs to the imperial throne. Gaius became Princeps Iuventutis in 5 BC and Lucius in 2 BC. Their respective deaths in 4 AD and 2 AD were later attributed to Augustus' wife, Livia, to secure the throne for her son her son, the future emperor, Tiberius.