Triton XVII, Lot: 631. Estimate $500. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.79 g, 1h). Rome mint; Q. Rustius, moneyer. Struck 19 BC. Q • RVSTIVS FORTVNÆ above, ΛNTIΛT in exergue, jugate, draped busts right of Fortuna Victrix, wearing round helmet, holding patera in right hand, and Fortuna Felix, wearing stephane; both busts rest on bar terminating at each end in a ram’s head / CΛESΛRI ΛV GVSTO, EX S C in exergue, ornamented rectangular altar inscribed FOR • RE set on base. RIC I 322; RSC 513; BMCRE 2-4 = BMCRR Rome 4580-2; BN 221-8. Near EF, deep cabinet tone. Well centered and struck.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.22517.