CNG 87, Lot: 820. Estimate $750. Sold for $2200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

GAUL, Lugdunum. Octavian & Divus Julius Caesar. Circa 38 BC. Æ Dupondius (33mm, 21.53 g, 9h). Back to back heads of Julius Caesar left, laureate, and Octavian right, bare / Prow of galley right; meta above, dolphin on prow. RPC I 514; Lyon 5; FITA 22. VF, attractive olive-green patina.

Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 1032. Henry Plat Hall Collection (Glendining’s, 19 July 1950), lot 641.