Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 701. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.92 g, 3h). Rome mint. P. Petronius Turpilianus, moneyer. Struck 19/8 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / TVRPILIANVS • III • VIR •, six-pointed star above large crescent. RIC I 300; RSC 495; BMCRE 32-4; BN 161-6. Near EF, toned. flan flaw on obverse, minor deposits under tone.

Ex Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica, 16 November 1994), lot 157.

A star within a crescent moon appears above Tarpeia on the prototype of L. Titurius Sabinus.