Sale: CNG 82, Lot: 969. Estimate $750.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 16 September 2009.  Sold For $850. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (3.74 g, 12h). Rome mint. P. Petronius Turpilianus, moneyer. Struck 19/8 BC. Bare head right / Tarpeia standing facing, raising both hands, buried to her waist under shields. RIC I 299; RSC 494. Good VF, toned, some porosity, surface roughness, traces of smoothing.