Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 779. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $6250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.77 g, 4h). Rome mint. L. Mescinius Rufus, moneyer. Struck 16 BC. Laureate head right / L MESCINI-VS • RVFVS, Mars, wearing crested helmet, naked except for a cloak falling over his right arm, standing left on low pedestal, holding transverse spear in right hand and parazonium in left; S P Q R/V PR RE/CAES in three lines on pedestal. RIC I 351; RSC 463a; BMCRE 86 = BMCRR Rome 4479; BN 331-6. EF, handsome gray and gold toning.