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Ex Payne, Weller, Jamgochian, and Bauer Collections

431, Lot: 335. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Augustus. Died AD 14. Æ Sestertius (34.5mm, 27.79 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Tiberius, AD 35-36. DIVO/AVGVSTO/S • P • Q • R in three lines in left field, Augustus seated left on throne, holding laurel branch in right hand and scepter in left hand, set on ornate triumphal car drawn by four elephants; each elephant has its own mahout on its neck / TI • CAESAR • DIVI • AVG • F • AVGVST • P • M • TR • POT • XXXVII, large S • C. RIC I 62 (Tiberius); MIR 2, 52-4; BMCRE 108 (Tiberius); BN 90 (Tiberius). VF, dark green and red patina, minor pitting, and minor smoothing in fields. Rare.


Ex Kallman Collection (Triton XX, 10 January 2017), lot 643; Dr. Lamar Payne Collection (Triton XI, 8 January 2008), lot 877; Michael Weller Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 986; Kovacs XII (30 November, 1995), lot 249; Nicholas V. Jamgochian Collection (Peus 340, 2 November 1994), lot 777; George Bauer Collection (Glendining's, 23 January 1963), lot 1143; Naville II (12 June 1922), lot 145; Egger XXXIX (15 January 1912), lot 660.