Unusual Imitation

219, Lot: 414. Estimate $200. Sold for $525. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ 20mm (6.55 g, 10h). Imitating an uncertain Spanish mint issue of circa 18 BC. bCM S(retrograde)AESARII, laureate head right / [...]V - IVL, eight-rayed comet with tail. Cf. RIC I 102 (for prototype). VF, brown patina. An interesting local bronze imitating an Augustus denarius.

From the Jörg Müller Collection.