The Celebrated Altar of Lugdunum

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 864. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Sestertius (25.15 g, 12h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck AD 10-14. CAESAR AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATER PATRIAE, laureate head right / ROM ET AVG below, the Great Altar of Lugdunum: altar enclosure; panels decorated with corona civica flanked by figures holding laurel branches; decoration along roofline; altar flanked by columns surmounted by statues of Victory standing vis-à-vis, each holding palm frond in left hand over left shoulder and wreath in right hand. For coin: RIC I 231a; Lyon 95; BMCRE 565; BN 1695-1706; for c/m: cf. Pangerl 41a. Coin Good VF, c/m Good VF, dark brown and green patina, slightly porous surfaces, flan crack from countermarking.

The celebrated ‘Altar of Lugdunum’ was dedicated by Augustus on the 1 August 10 BC.