Choice Caius and Lucius Aureus

Triton XX, Lot: 635. Estimate $10000. Sold for $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.79 g, 1h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 2 BC-AD 12. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, laureate head right / C L CAESARES, AVGVSTI F COS DESIG PRINC IVVENT, Caius and Lucius Caesar standing facing between two shields; simpulum and lituus above. RIC I 206; Lyon 81; Calicó 176a; BMCRE 513; Biaggi 92-3. EF, lustrous.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XVIII (1 April 1987), lot 474.