Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 677. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (11.75 g, 12h). Pergamum mint. Struck 27-26 BC. IMP • CAESAR, bare head right / AVGVSTVS, sphinx, with raised wings, seated right. RIC I 492; Sutherland Group IVa, - (O1/R- [unlisted rev. die]); RSC 31; RPC I 2210; BMCRE 702 = BMCRR East 290; BN 954. Good VF, toned. Very rare.

The sphinx was well known as the device on Augustus' signet ring.