Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 710. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.70 g, 9h). Rome mint. M. Durmius, moneyer. Struck 19/8 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / M • DVRMI[VS] III • VIR, bull with human face, walking right, crowned by Victory flying right above. RIC I 319; RSC 432; BMCRE 66-7 = BMCRR Rome 4572; BN 219. Good VF, some deposits and scraping, a few bankers’ marks. Very rare.