From the Payne, Weller, Jamgochian, Bauer, Vautier, and Collignon Collections

Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 877. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Augustus. Died AD 14. Æ Sestertius (27.84 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Tiberius, AD 35-36. DIVO/AVGVSTO/S • P • Q • R in three lines in left field, Augustus seated left on throne, holding laurel branch in right hand and scepter in left hand, set on ornate triumphal car drawn by four elephants; each elephant has its own mahout on its neck / TI • CAESAR • DIVI • AVG • F • AVGVST • P • M • TR • POT • XXXVII, large S • C. RIC I 62 (Tiberius); MIR 2, 52-4; BMCRE 108 (Tiberius); BN 90 (Tiberius); Cohen 307 (Augustus). VF, dark green and red patina, minor pitting, and minor smoothing in fields. Rare.

From the Dr. Lamar Payne Collection. Ex Michael Weller Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 986; Kovacs XII (30 November, 1995), lot 249; Nicholas V. Jamgochian Collection (Peus 340, 2 November 1994), lot 777; George Bauer Collection (Glendining's, 23 January 1963), lot 1143; M. Paul Vautier and Prof. Maxime Collignon Collections (Naville II, 12 June 1922), lot 145; Egger XXXIX (15 January 1912), lot 660.