CNG 109, Lot: 582. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.86 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15 BC. Bare head right / Augustus seated left on curule chair set on daïs, extending hand toward two soldiers, each carrying parazonium and presenting laurel branches. RIC I 165a; Lyon 13; RSC 133. Good VF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse.

From the WRG Collection, purchased from William B. Porter, 1982.