CNG 85, Lot: 829. Estimate $300. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. Spring-summer 36 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.93 g, 6h). Southern or central Italian mint. Bareheaded and bearded head right / Temple of Divus Julius: statue of Julius Caesar, holding lituus, within tetrastyle temple; DIVO IVL on architrave, star within pediment; altar at left. Crawford 540/2; CRI 315; Sydenham 1338; RSC 90. VF, toned, tiny contact mark on neck and cheek.