Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 810. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $6000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Quinarius (3.93 g, 6h). Spanish mint - Tarraco. Struck circa 18-17/6 BC. AVG-VST across field, bare head right / Victory, draped, standing right on globe, holding aquila in raised left hand and branch downwards in right. RIC I 121; BMCRE 424 = BMCRR Rome 4379; BN -. Good VF, a few minor field marks. Very rare.

The gold quinarius (half aureus) was first struck by Caesar in 45 BC for his Spanish triumph. It was reintroduced by Augustus and like its equivalent in silver was coined only intermittently and in limited quantities.