Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 706. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.77 g, 2h). Rome mint. M. Durmius, moneyer. Struck 19/8 BC. M • DVRMIVS III • VIR • HONORI, head of Honos right / CAESAR AVGVSTVS • SIGN RECE •, bare-headed Parthian kneeling on right knee right, extending in right hand a signum, to which is attached a vexillum marked X, and holding out left hand below left knee. RIC I 315 corr. (no stars); RSC 428; BMCRE 56-8 = BMCRR Rome 4563; BN 200-204. Good VF, light gray and iridescent toning, minor porosity, scratch on obverse from chin to edge, small “M” graffito in left field on reverse.

Ex Vecchi 9 (4 December 1997), lot 111.