Two Important Rarities – Caius, Lucius and Julia Presented

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 796. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $20000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.86 g, 6h). Rome mint. C. Marius C.f. Tro(mentina tribu), moneyer. Struck 13 BC. AVGVSTVS, bare head right; lituus behind / C • MA[R]IVS • TR-O below, III VIR above, bare heads right of Lucius, Julia, and Caius; wreath above Julia. RIC I 404; RSC 1 (Caius, Lucius, Julia, and Augustus); BMCRE 106 = BMCRR Rome 4650; BN 526. Good VF, area of weakness on obverse and corresponding reverse, banker’s mark on neck. Exceptional metal for issue. Very rare.

Ex Jacquier FPL 17 (Autumn 1995), no. 384.