Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1097. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $120. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

SPAIN, Carthago Nova. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Semis (5.25 g, 11h). C. Laetilius Apalus and Ptolemy, King of Mauretania, duoviri. Bare head right / Name and titles of the duoviri around diadem. RPC 172 var. (crescent and lotus above diadem); SNG Copenhagen 494. Good VF, dark green patina, light doubling on reverse.

From the Richard Prideaux Collection of Augustus. Ex Hirsch 185 (15 February 1995), lot 682.