Model for the “Tribute Penny”

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 860. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $340. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.75 g, 4h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 13-14. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, laureate head right / PONTIF MAXIM, Livia, as Pax, seated right, holding and leaning on scepter in right hand, olive branch in left. RIC I 220; Lyon 94; RSC 223; BMCRE 545-6; BN 1693-4. Near EF, toned. Rare.

Tiberius used this issue as the principal model for his own denarius, conventionally known as the "Tribute Penny."