Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 776. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.81 g, 1h). Rome mint. P. Licinius Stolo, moneyer. Struck 17 BC. AVGVSTVS TR • POT, Augustus, laureate, wearing cloak and short tunic, on horseback riding right, holding patera in right hand / P • STOLO above, III • VIR below, Flamen’s cap (apex flaminis) between two studded oval shields (ancilia) and pinched in the middle. RIC I 344; RSC 439; BMCRE 76 = BMCRR Rome 4594; BN 300-1. VF, toned, porosity, banker’s mark on obverse, a few scrapes, minor test cuts on edge. Very rare.