Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 964. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $625. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. Autumn 30-summer 29 BC. AR Denarius (3.70 g, 5h). Italian (Rome?) mint. Laureate head of Apollo of Actium right, with features resembling Octavian / Octavian, as city founder, ploughing right with yoke of oxen. RIC I 272; CRI 424; RSC 117. VF, toned, minor hairlines and a shallow pin-scratch on reverse.

The reverse depicts Octavian establishing the pomerium, or sacred boundary, around the site of the city of Nicopolis in Epirus, founded by him near the site of his Actian base camp.