Exceptional Antistius Vetus

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 786. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.87 g, 9h). Rome mint. C. Antistius Vetus, moneyer. Struck 16 BC. IMP • CAES[AR • AVGVS • TR •] POT • IIX, bare head right / C • ANTISTI VETVS IIIVIR, APO-LLINI across field, ACTIO in exergue, Apollo of Actium, laureate, wearing robe falling to ankles, standing left on platform and sacrificing out of patera in right hand over a lighted and garlanded altar and holding lyre in left hand; the front or the platform is ornamented with prows and anchors. RIC I 366; RSC 343; BMCRE 95 = BMCRR Rome 4489; BN 363-4. EF, toned, a small area of smoothing on edge. Bold portrait. Very rare.