Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1349. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 38 BC. Æ Sestertius or Dupondius (16.91 g, 12h). Southern Italian mint(?). Bare head right, wearing slight beard; six-rayed star before / DIVOS/IVLIVS in two lines within laural wreath. Crawford 535/2; CRI 309; RPC I 621; Sydenham 1336. VF, green patina, minor areas of roughness.

From the Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection.