454, Lot: 328. Estimate $4000. Sold for $4500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (17mm, 7.73 g, 6h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck circa 19 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / OB/ CIVIS/ SERVATOS in three lines within oak wreath, ties drawn upward. RIC I 76a; Calicó 252; BMCRE p. 66, note *; BMCRR –; BN p. 171, note *; Biaggi 127; Jameson –; Mazzini 207. Some minor surface and edge marks, possibly ex jewelry. Near VF. Rare.

From the Alpine Collection.