Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 798. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (4.09 g, 8h). Rome mint. C. Sulpicius Platorinus, moneyer. Struck 13 BC. CAESAR [AVG]VSTVS, bare head right / C • SVLPICI-VS • PLATORIN, Augustus and Agrippa, bare-headed and togate, seated side by side, facing slightly left, on a bisellium, placed on a platform which is ornamented with three rostra; on left, staff or spear. RIC I 406; RSC 529 var. (obv. legend); BMCRE 115-6 var. = BMCRR Rome 4657-8 var. (same); BN 539. Near EF, gold-gray toning. Wonderful portrait.