298, Lot: 95. Estimate $300. Sold for $550. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian and Divus Julius Caesar. 38 BC. Æ Sestertius (31mm, 19.59 g, 5h). Southern Italian mint(?). Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard; star of eight rays before / DIVOS IVLIVS in two lines within laurel wreath. Crawford 535/2; CRI 309; Sydenham 1336. Near VF, brown patina, grayish-green deposits around edges.

Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection.