From the Garrett Collection

Triton XVII, Lot: 627. Estimate $5000. Sold for $27500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.85 g, 5h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15 BC. ΛVGVSTVS DIVI • F, bare head right / IMP • X in exergue, bull butting right, left foreleg raised, lashing his tail. RIC I 166a; Lyon 18/9a (D58/R63); Calicó 212; Biaggi 108; BMCRE 450 = BMCRR Gaul 162; BN 1372. Near EF, toned, earthen deposits, underlying luster.

Ex Myron Stepath Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 40, with Numismatica Ars Classica, 4 December 1996), lot 1330; John W. Garrett Collection, part I (Numismatic Fine Arts/Bank Leu, 16 May 1984), lot 707; T. Harrison Garrett Collection.