445, Lot: 409. Estimate $500. Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Triumvirs. Octavian. Autumn 30-summer 29 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.68 g, 11h). Italian (Rome?) mint. Laureate head of Octavian, as Apollo, right / Rostral column ornamented with two anchors and six beaks of galleys, surmounted by a statue of Octavian, holding spear and parazonium. CRI 423; RIC I 271; RSC 124 (Augustus). VF, toned, a few light marks. Struck on a broad flan.
From a European collection formed prior to the First World War.