The Actian Column

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 655. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 30-29 BC. AR Denarius (3.91 g, 11h). Italian (Rome?) mint. Laureate head right / IMP CAESAR across field, rostral column ornamented with two anchors and six beaks of galleys, and surmounted by a statue of Octavian, naked but for cloak over left shoulder, holding spear in right hand and parazonium in left. RIC I 271; CRI 423; RSC 124; BMCRE 633-6 = BMCRR Rome 4349-51; BN 68-71. Good VF, toned.

Ex Münzen und Medaillen 79 (28 February 1994), lot 452.