Triton XIX, Lot: 452. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.84 g, 6h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck 19-18 BC. Head right, wearing oak wreath / CAESAR above, AVGVSTVS below, two laurel branches (or trees) upright. RIC I 33a; RSC 47; BMCRE 318-20 var. = BMCRR Gaul 144-6 var. (head left); BN 1283-1284. EF, toned, a few shallow marks on obverse under tone.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 81 (18 September 1995), lot 193; Leu 13 (29 April 1975), lot 379.