Octavian’s First Military Issue

Triton XVI, Lot: 966. Estimate $5000. Sold for $9500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Spring 43 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.36 g, 12h). Military mint traveling with Octavian in Italy or Cisalpine Gaul. Head of Venus (with features of Apollo) right, wearing fillet, her hair collected into a knot behind / Trophy of Gallic arms, chariot at base on left, a shield, two spears and carnyx on right; CAESAR tup left left, IMP down right. Crawford 482/1; CRI 130; RSC 15; Sydenham 1016; Kestner -; BMCRR Spain 70-71. VF, toned, banker’s mark in obverse field, minor roughness on reverse. Extremely rare.

From the Goldman Roman Imperatorial Collection. Ex Künker 168 (12 March 2010), 7566; UBS 83 (8 September 2009), lot 126.