Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 765. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.71 g, 5h). Spanish mint - Tarraco. Struck circa 19 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / SIGNIS above, RECEPTIS below, S P Q R around, round shield inscribed CL • V; aquila and signum flanking. RIC I 87a; RSC 265a; BMCRE 422 = BMCRR Rome 4400; BN 1141. Good VF, toned, flan a little wavy, tiny scrape on obverse.

Ex Leu 71 (24 October 1997), lot 276; De Nicola FPL (1948), lot 125.