“Tribute Penny” in Gold

164, Lot: 128. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Tiberius. AD 14-37. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.71 g). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Laureate head right / Livia (as Pax) seated right, holding reversed spear and olive-branch; ornate chair legs, two lines below chair. RIC I 27; BMCRE 39; Calicó 305a. Near VF, numerous small field marks.