Exceptionally Artistic Portrait

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 845. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $20000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (7.81 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 10 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, laureate head right / IMP • XII in exergue, bull butting right, lashing his tail. RIC I 186a; Lyon 51; Calicó 222; BMCRE 471 = BMCRR Gaul 184; BN 1431-2. Near EF, lovely toning, tiny contact mark from eyebrow to hair on obverse, minor scrape on reverse from border to edge, an area of smoothing on edge. Exceptionally artistic portrait.