Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 760. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.72 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. RIC I 82b; RSC 259 var. (head right); BMCRE 414 var. = BMCRR Rome 4405 var. (same); BN 1118-1119 var. (same). Good VF, lightly toned, banker’s marks on obverse and reverse. Rare variety with head left.