Calicó Plate Coin

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 725. Estimate $15000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $28000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (7.85 g, 6h). Spanish mint - Emerita. Struck 19-18 BC. AVGVSTVS, bare head right / OB CIVIS above, SERVATOS below, round shield, inscribed S • P • Q • R/CL • V in two lines within oak wreath. RIC I 30a; Calicó 257a (this coin illustrated); BMCRE -; BMCRR -; cf. BN p. 188, note †, pl. 51, a. EF, small scratch in field on obverse. Extremely rare.

Ex Leu 30 (28 April 1982), lot 279; Münzen und Medaillen 43 (12 November 1970), lot 271.