Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 639. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 32-31 BC. AR Denarius (3.82 g, 12h). Italian (Rome?) mint. Head of Venus right, wearing Stephane, hair is looped at back and two ringlets fall down behind and over neck; she wears earring and necklace / CAESAR DIVI F across field, Octavian, in military attire, hurrying left, his cloak billowing out behind, his right hand extended and holding transverse spear in left. RIC I 251; CRI 397; RSC 70; BMCRE 609-10 = BMCRR Rome 4327-8; BN 1-4. Good VF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse.