411, Lot: 378. Estimate $300. Sold for $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian and Divus Julius Caesar. 38 BC. Æ Sestertius (or Dupondius?) (32mm, 16.21 g, 6h). Southern Italian(?) mint. Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard / Wreathed head of Divus Julius Caesar right. Crawford 535/1; cf. Alföldi & Giard 34 (for type); CRI 308; Sydenham 1335; RPC I 620; Type as RBW 1822. Good VF to EF for wear, dark brown surfaces with touches of red. Extensively filled and smoothed in the fields, but the portraits are untouched. SOLD AS IS – NO RETURNS.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex iNumis (14 December 2010), lot 28 (since extensively repaired).

Whilst the fine portraits of Julius Caesar and Octavian on this coin are untouched, the outer fields and edges have been extensively repaired to address corrosion damage. See https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=911538 for the condition before the coin was repaired. [Andrew McCabe]