Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 559. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008. Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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BYZACIUM, Hadrumentum. Augustus, with Caius and Lucius Caesars. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ “Sestertius” (33mm, 23.62 g, 5h). Fabius Africanus, proconsul. Struck 6-5 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head of Augustus right / L CAESAR AVGVST F CAESAR AVGVST F, bare heads of Caius and Lucius Caesars vis-à-vis. RPC I 779.5; MAA 90; Müller,
Afrique 38; SNG Copenhagen -. Fine, brown and green patina, light overall porosity.
From the Patrick Villemur Collection. Ex Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack's, 11 June 1970), lot 606.