Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 645. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 31-30 BC. AR Denarius (3.75 g, 3h). Italian (Rome?) mint. Winged bust of Victory right, wearing hair rolled from brow to back of head and knotted there and fastened with a jeweled ornament / CAESAR DIVI F across field, Octavian, as Neptune, standing left, naked but for cloak hanging from shoulders behind, his right foot set on globe, holding apluster in right hand and resting on scepter held in left. RIC I 256; CRI 409; RSC 60; BMCRE 615 = BMCRR Rome 4341; BN 12-7. Good VF, lightly toned, minor porosity. Perfectly centered on a broad flan.