Emerita and Tarraco Mints for Same Issue

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 813. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.90 g, 7h). Spanish mint - Emerita. Struck 17-16 BC. Bare head right / AVGVSTVS below, capricorn right, holding globe attached to rudder between front hooves; cornucopia above its back. RIC I 126; RSC 21; BMCRE 346-8 = BMCRR Rome 4374-6; BN 1266-7. Good VF, toned. Rare.

Ex Domus Julia Collection (Münzen und Medaillen 81, 18 September 1995), lot 198.

Note the distinctive difference of style between this and the next lot.