Extremely Rare Variety

5631914.

Sold For $4250

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.81 g, 4h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck circa 18 BC. S P Q R PAREN[T] above, CONS • SVO below, Aquila, toga picta over tunica palmata, and wreath / CAESARI above, [AVGVSTO] in exergue, Slow quadriga right, one horse’s head looking left; the car is ornamented at front and on side with Victories, surmounted by four miniature horses galloping right. RIC I 99; RSC 78; BMCRE 399 = BMCRR Rome 4437; cf. BN 1187&92. Lustrous with hints of iridescence. Choice EF. Extremely rare variety with horse’s head reverted.

Ex Scipio Collection (Aureo 92, May 1998), lot 243.

The ornamenta, the consular robes which are featured on the obverse of this issue, were the emblems of the chief power within the state.