188, Lot: 300. Estimate $100. Sold for $183. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 35-34 BC. AR Denarius (3.53 g, 10h). Spanish or northern Italian or mint traveling with Octavian in Illyricum. Bare head right / Round shield with three concentric rows of studs and central boss. RIC I 543a; CRI 392; BMCRE 309-312 = BMCRR Gaul 119-122; RSC 126; BN 1017-1020. VF, porous, pitted, edge flaws.

From the Richard Prideaux Collection.