Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 769. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.10 g, 3h). Spanish mint - Tarraco. Struck 19-18 BC. Bare head left / AVGVSTVS across field, Aurora, naked, holding in both hands a veil, billowing above head, flying right; below, capricorn right, holding rudder. RIC I 124; RSC 15; BMCRE 349 = BMCRR Rome 4451; BN 1358. VF, toned, porous, minor marks, holed. Extremely rare.

Ex Giessener Münzhandlung 90 (12 October 1998), lot 797.