From the J.P. Morgan and Strozzi Collections

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 762. Estimate $7500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (7.88 g, 6h). Spanish mint - Emerita. Struck 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head left / SIGNIS above, RECEPTIS below, S P Q R around, round shield inscribed CL • V; aquila and signum flanking. RIC I 85b; Calicó 274 = Morgan 24 (this coin); BMCRE 420-1 = BMCRR Rome 4402; BN p. 198, *. Good VF, a few marks.

Ex J. Pierpont Morgan Collection (Stack's, 14 September 1983), lot 39; Carlo Strozzi Collection (Sangiorgi, 15 April 1907), lot 1804; 1869 Cumae Hoard.