Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 869. Estimate $3000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.85 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 8 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, laureate head right / C • CAES • above, AVGVS • F in exergue, Caius Caesar on horseback, galloping right, holding sword in left hand and reins in right; behind him, an aquila between two signa. RIC I 199; Lyon 69; RSC 40; BMCRE 500-502 = BMCRR Gaul 223-225; BN 1461, 1463-1465, 1469. Superb EF, lustrous, traces of die rust and two small die breaks on reverse. Bold portrait. Rare in this lofty state of preservation.