Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.02 g, 3h). Rome mint; P. Petronius Turpilianus, moneyer. Struck 19/8 BC. TVRPILIANVS • III • VIR •, head of Liber right, wearing ivy-wreath, hair knotted at back and falling down over neck and left shoulder / CAESAR AVG[VSTVS • S]IGN • RECE •, bare-headed Parthian kneeling on right knee right, extending in right hand a signum, to which is attached a vexillum marked X, and holding out left hand below left knee. RIC I 287; RSC 485; BMCRE 10; BN 118-126. Some luster, faint hairlines. EF. Exceptionally well struck kneeling Parthian.
Ex Stack’s (8 June 1994), lot 2174; Numismatica Ars Classica 1 (29 March 1989), lot 775.
