252, Lot: 306. Estimate $100. Sold for $170. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.42 g, 6h). Rome mint. L. Aquillius Florus, moneyer. Struck 19 BC. Helmeted and draped bust of Virtus right / Augustus driving biga of elephants left, holding laurel branch and scepter. RIC I 301; RSC 354. Fine, toned, porous and corroded, fragile with a semicircular crack on the reverse from roughly 9 to 6h.