363, Lot: 303. Estimate $100. Sold for $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
|
Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Quadrans (18mm, 3.18 g, 2h). Mint in Gaul (auxiliary mint of Lugdunum?). Struck circa 10 BC. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing, head left, with wings spread. RIC I 227; Lyon –; RPC I 508. VF, brown patina, minor porosity.
Giard, in Le monnayage de l’atelier de Lyon, regards this issue as a product of an auxiliary mint of Lugdunum. They were probably minted in the territory of the Lingones, the Aedui, or the Sequani, if not struck in Lugdunum