Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 747. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (7.85 g, 5h). Spanish mint - Tarraco. Struck 19-18 BC. Laureate head left / Rectangular altar inscribed FORT • RED/CAES • AVG/S • P • Q • R • in three lines. RIC I 53b; Calicó 200; cf. BMCRE p. 64, note 360 = cf. BMCRR Rome 4441 var. (head right); BN 1343-4. Near VF, surface marks, a bit wavy. Very rare.