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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 554. Estimate $2000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. 
Sold For $7000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

BYZACIUM, Achulla. Augustus, with Caius and Lucius Caesars. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ “Dupondius” (32mm, 13.77 g, 3h). L. Volusius Saturninus, proconsul. Struck 7/6 BC. AVG • PONT • MAX (NT ligate), C • L • below, bare head of Augustus left; to left, bare head of Caius Caesar right; to right, bare head of Lucius Caesar to left / L VOLVSIVS SATVR ACHVL, bare head of L. Volusius Saturninus right. RPC I 800.4 (this coin; illustrated); MAA 60; Müller, Afrique 9; SNG Copenhagen 50. Good VF, dark green patina, double strike on obverse, light overall roughness, clipped flan. Extremely rare.


From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Pierre Bastien Collection (Auctiones 15, 18 September 1985), lot 400.