315, Lot: 345. Estimate $100. Sold for $150. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.33 g, 7h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck 18 BC. Bare head right / Triumphal arch of Augustus: central arch surmounted by a facing quadriga; side arches, on each of which is a standing figure. RIC I 131 or 134a; RSC 83 or 84. VF, porous, light smoothing on obverse.

From the Dr. Robert A. Kilmarx Collection.

The Arcus Augusti was erected in the Roman Forum in 20 BC and commemorated the return of the battle standards lost by Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae.