Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 757. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (7.76 g, 6h). Spanish mint - Tarraco. Struck circa 19 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head left / SIGNIS to left, RECEPTIS to right, Mars, helmeted, naked except for chlamys behind, standing left, head right, holding aquila in right hand and signa cradled in left over left shoulder. RIC I 80b; Calicó 269; BMCRE 410 = BMCRR Rome 4403; cf. BN p. 167, note †. VF, minor marks, scrape on reverse, slight wave to flan. Rare.

Ex Glendining (11 May 1966), lot 250.