Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 675. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $13000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (11.28 g, 12h). Pergamum mint. Struck 27-26 BC. IMP • CAESAR, bare head left; lituus before / AVGVSTVS, capricorn right, head left, bearing cornucopia on back; all within laurel wreath. RIC I 489; Sutherland Group IIIb, 84 (O5/R2); RPC I 2205; RSC 16a var. (head right); BMCRE p. 113, 698, note = BMCRR East 287 var. (same); BN 950-951 var. (same); CNR 280 (this coin illustrated) = SNG von Aulock 6571 (this coin illustrated). Choice EF, toned. Very rare with head left. An exceptional strike.

Ex von Aulock Collection, 6571.

RPC cites only six examples with head left.