Deified Julius Caesar

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 772. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus, with Divus Julius Caesar. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.27 g, 6h). Rome mint. M. Sanquinius, moneyer. Struck 17 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, bare head of Augustus right / M • SANQVI-NIVS • III • VIR, youthful, laureate head of deified Julius Caesar right; above, a comet with four rays and a tail. RIC I 338; RSC 1 (Julius Caesar and Augustus); BMCRE 71-3 = BMCRR Rome 4585-7; BN 278-80. Near EF, toned, obverse banker’s mark.