176, Lot: 218. Estimate $300. Sold for $470. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 36 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.75 g). Southern or central Italian mint. Bare-headed and bearded head right / Temple of Divus Julius: statue of Julius Caesar, holding lituus, within tetrastyle temple; DIVO IVL on architrave, star within pediment; altar at left. Crawford 540/2; CRI 315; Sydenham 1338; RSC 90. VF, toned, banker’s mark on neck.