CNG 109, Lot: 594. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus, with Divus Julius Caesar. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.70 g, 8h). Rome mint; M. Sanquinius, moneyer. Struck 17 BC. Bare head of Augustus right / Youthful, laureate head of deified Julius Caesar right; above, a comet with four rays and a tail. RIC I 338; RSC 1 (Julius Caesar and Augustus). EF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse, smoothing marks under tone, small edge chip not affecting the design. Rare.

From the WRG Collection. Ex Stack’s (10 June 1996), lot 477.