Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 669. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (4.14 g, 10h). Pergamum mint. Struck 27 BC. AVGVSTVS, bare head right / Laurel wreath interwoven with rostra and tied with fillet, ties drawn upward across center. RIC I 473; RSC 335; BMCRE 669 = BMCRR East 260; BN 940. Good VF, gray and gold toning, traces of iridescence, area of flat strike on obverse, tiny flan flaw in field below chin.

Ex Domus Julia Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 81, 18 September 1995), lot 166.