CNG 111, Lot: 640. Estimate $750. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Spring-early summer 36 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.08 g, 6h). Southern or central Italian mint. Bareheaded and bearded head right / Tetrastyle temple of Divus Julius: statue of Julius Caesar as augur standing within temple; DIVO • IVL on architrave, star within pediment, figures along roof line; lighted altar to left. Crawford 540/2; CRI 315; Sydenham 1338; RSC 90 (Augustus); RBW 1829. Good VF, weakly struck in centers, metal flaw and a few scratches on reverse.

Ex Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased from CGB Numismatique, 2015. Ex Robert Couet Collection.