Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 767. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.95 g, 7h). Spanish mint - Tarraco. Struck 18 BC. S • P • Q • R • PAREN[T] / CONS • SVO, toga picta over tunica palmata flanked on left by aquila and on right by wreath / CAESAR[I] above, AVGVST[O] in exergue, Triumphal quadriga advancing right, ornamented with one Victory and surmounted by a small galloping quadriga. RIC I 99; RSC 78b; BMCRE 399 = BMCRR Rome 4437; BN 1187-90. VF, toned, slightly off-center.

The ornamenta, the consular robes which are featured on the obverse of this issue, were the emblems of the chief power within the state.