Wonderful Iconography

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 707. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $15000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (7.93 g, 12h). Rome mint. M. Durmius, moneyer. Struck 19/8 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, head right, wearing oak wreath / M • DVRMIVS III • VIR, crab holding butterfly in its claws. RIC I 316; Calicó 133; BMCRE 60 = BMCRR Rome 4566; BN 111-2. VF, minor marks. Very rare.