Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 780. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.68 g, 9h). Rome mint. L. Mescinius Rufus, moneyer. Struck 16 BC. CAESAR • AVGV-STVS • TR • POT, laureate head right / L • MES[CINIVS • RVFVS III VIR, cippus inscribed IMP/CAES/AVG/LVD/SAEC in five lines; XV SF across field. RIC I 355; RSC 461; BMCRE -; BN 339. Good VF, toned, test cut and flatly stuck on obverse, a couple of scrapes on edge and reverse. Rare.