Triton XVI, Lot: 1015. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20mm, 4.23 g, 2h). Rome mint. Q. Rustius, moneyer. Struck 19/8 BC. Q RVSTIVS FORTVNÆ above, ANTIAT in exergue, jugate, draped busts right of Fortuna Victrix, wearing round helmet, holding patera, and of Fortuna Felix, wearing stephane, set on bar with ram’s head finials / CAESARI AV GVSTO, EX • S • C, ornamented rectangular altar inscribed FOR RE, set on base. RIC I 322; RSC 513; BMCRE 2-4 = BMCRR Rome 4580-2; BN 221-8. Good VF, attractively toned.
Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXVIII (8 December 1993), lot 247.