Triumphal Issue

Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1687. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Dupondius(?) or As (10.96 g, 11h). “Triumphal Coinage” issue. Rome mint. M. Maecilius Tullus, moneyer. Struck 7 BC. Laureate head of Augustus left, globe at point of bust; behind, Victory, touching fillet of laurel wreath and holding cornucopia / Legend around large S • C. RIC I 434. VF, mottled red-brown and dark green patina, scratch from jaw to hair, minor roughness. Rare.

The weight of this example is within the range of an As. However, no As is recorded in the major references with the globe at the point of the bust.