Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 847. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $5250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.81 g, 5h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 10 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, laureate head right / IMP XII across field, ACT in exergue, Apollo Citharoedus of Actium, wearing long drapery, standing facing, head left, holding plectrum in right hand and lyre in left. RIC I 190a; Lyon 47; Calicó 227; BMCRE -; BMCRR Gaul -; BN 1429. VF, minor marks in field, scrape on and near edge, slight wave to flan. Rare.