Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 787. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (4.01 g, 6h). Rome mint. C. Antistius Vetus, moneyer. Struck 16 BC. C • ANTISTIVS VETVS • III • VIR, draped bust of Venus right, wearing stephane twined with leaves, earring, and necklace; her hair is rolled from brow to neck and knotted at back / COS/IMP • CAESAR • AVGV/XI in three lines, simpulum and lituus above; tripod and patera below. RIC I 367; RSC 348; BMCRE 99 = BMCRR Rome 4490; BN 368-71. Good VF, toned, a short, shallow scratch on obverse under tone.