Triton XVII, Lot: 603. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Summer 37 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.44 g, 2h). Southern or central Italian mint. IMP • CAESAR • DIVI • F • III • VIR • R • P • C around empty field / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus. Crawford 537/1; CRI 310; Sydenham 1332; Kestner -; BMCRR Gaul 113-4; RSC 128. Near VF, toned, a few bankers’ marks, slightly granular surfaces. Very rare.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.22490.

Even the extensive collection of Roman Republican Coins in the Kestner-Museum Hannover, Germany does not have a single example of this rarity.