Alföldi & Giard Plate Coin

Triton XVII, Lot: 602. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian and Divus Julius Caesar. 38 BC. Æ Sestertius (32mm, 18.73 g, 11h). Southern Italian(?) mint. Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard; sidus Iulium (star of eight rays) to right; DIVI • F downwards to left / DIVOS/IVLIVS in two lines within laurel wreath. Crawford 535/2; Alföldi & Giard 44 (D7/R8 – this coin); CRI 309; Sydenham 1336; RPC 621; Kestner 3829; BMCRR Gaul 108-10. Good VF, natural green patina, adjustment marks, areas of roughness, minor deposits.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.12363.