Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 711. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.55 g, 2h). Rome mint. Q. Rustius, moneyer. Struck 19/8 BC. Q • RVSTIVS FORTVNÆ above, ANTIAT below, jugate, draped busts right of Fortuna Victrix, wearing round helmet, holding patera, and of Fortuna Felix, diademed, set on bar with ram’s head finials / CAESARI AV-GVSTO, EX S • C • in exergue, ornamented rectangular altar inscribed FOR • RE. RIC I 322; RSC 513; BMCRE 2-4 = BMCRR Rome 4580-2; BN 221-8. Good VF, toned, minor porosity.