Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 414. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SPAIN, Gades. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ “Sestertius” (37mm, 31.59 g, 9h). L. Cornelius Balbus Minor, pontifex. Struck 20 BC. Head of Hercules left, wearing lion skin / BALBV S P ONT, pontifical implements: knife, simpulum, and axe. RPC I 85; Vives 16 and pl. LXXV, 2; NAH 940; SNG Copenhagen 447 var. (placement of rev. legend). VF, brown patina.

From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Schweizerische Kreditanstalt (19 April 1985), lot 43.