Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 665. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 28 BC. AR Cistophorus (11.62 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. IMP • CAESAR • DIVI • F • COS • VI • LIBERTATIS • P • R • VINDEX •, laureate head right / PAX in left field, Pax, draped, standing left, holding caduceus in right field; behind her, in right field, a snake emerging from cista mystica; all within laurel wreath. RIC I 476; Sutherland Group I, - (unlisted dies); CRI 433; RSC 218; RPC I 2203; BMCRE 691-3 = BMCRR East 248-9; BN 908-10. Good VF, toned, scattered porosity.