The Temple of Divus Julius

280, Lot: 96. Estimate $200. Sold for $425. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Spring-early summer 36 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.93 g, 6h). Southern or central Italian mint. Bare head right / Temple of Divus Julius: statue of Julius Caesar, holding lituus, within tetrastyle temple; DIVO IVL on architrave, star within pediment; altar to left. Crawford 540/2; CRI 315; Sydenham 1338; RSC 90. VF, toned, banker’s mark on obverse.

From the Nera Collection. Ex Numismatic Ars Classica N (26 June 2003), lot 1659.