188, Lot: 333. Estimate $200. Sold for $409. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.68 g). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 8 BC. Laureate head left / Caius Caesar on horseback right, holding sword and reins; aquila between two signa behind. RIC I 199 var. (head right); BMCRE 500 var. (same); RSC 40 var. (same). Near VF, a little off-center. Unpublished with head left, for another example see Triton XI, lot 853.
From the Richard Prideaux Collection.