271, Lot: 46. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Triumvirs. Octavian and Divus Julius Caesar. 38 BC. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 19.97 g, 6h). Southern Italian mint(?). Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard; DIVI • F behind, eight-ray star before / DIVOS/IVLIVS in two lines within laurel wreath. Crawford 535/2; Alföldi & Giard 40 (D4/R4); CRI 309; Sydenham 1336; Kestner 3829; BMCRR Gaul 108-10. Good VF, dark green-brown patina, lightly smoothed.
Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong.