Coinage Struck in Provincia Asia 19-18 BC

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 712. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (11.55 g, 12h). Pergamum mint. Struck 19-18 BC. IMP • IX • TR • PO • V •, bare head right / COM ASIAE across field, hexastyle Temple of Rome and Augustus set on five-tiered base; pediment surmounted by acroteria; ROM ET AVGVST on entablature. RIC I 506; Sutherland Group VIIb, - (O44/R- [unlisted rev. die]); RSC 86; RPC I 2219; BMCRE 705-6 = BMCRR East 312-3; BN 986-8. VF, toned.

Ex Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica, 16 November 1994), lot 148.