288, Lot: 338. Estimate $150. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ “Sestertius” (34mm, 25.32 g, 12h). Struck circa 25 BC. Bare head right / Large C•A within laurel wreath framed by double-pelleted border. RPC I 2233; C. Howgego, "Coinage and Military Finance: the Imperial Bronze Coinage of the Augustan East,"
NC 1982, Class 2a; RIC I 501; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 6671. Near VF, dark brown, almost black, patina.
From the R. D. Frederick Collection.