Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1702. Estimate $150.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $210. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Quadrans (3.19 g, 10h). Mint in Gaul (auxiliary mint of Lugdunum). Struck circa 10 BC. Laureate head right / Ragle standing facing with wings spread, head left. RIC I 227; Lyon -; RPC I 508. VF, dark green patina.

Giard, in Le monnayage de l’atelier de Lyon, regards this issue as a product of an auxiliary mint of Lugdunum. They were probably minted in the territory of the Lingones, the Aedui, or the Sequani, if not struck in Lugdunum.