Artistic Tiberius Denarius

Sale: CNG 75, Lot: 982. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 23 May 2007.  Sold For $1750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius. AD 14-37. AR Denarius (3.82 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 36-37. Laureate head right / Livia (as Pax) seated right, holding scepter and olive-branch; ornate chair legs. RIC I 30; Lyon 154; RSC 16a. EF, deeply toned, a few trivial marks under tone. Struck from particularly artistic dies.