Triton XVI, Lot: 1010. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.88 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15-13 BC. AVGVS[TVS] DIVI • F, bare head right / IMP X in exergue, Augustus seated left on curule chair set on low dais, receiving olive branch from soldier with parazonium. RIC I 162a; Lyon 11/2a (same dies as illustration); RSC 131; cf. BMCRE 449 (fourrée); BN 1361. Near EF, toned, small flan flaw in left field of obverse, hairline flan crack on reverse.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Triton VII (13 January 2004), lot 841.