318, Lot: 440. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain mint. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ "Sestertius" (35mm, 23.75 g, 1h). Struck circa 25 BC. Bare head right / Large C A within laurel wreath framed by double-pelleted border. C. Howgego, "Coinage and Military Finance: the Imperial Bronze Coinage of the Augustan East," NC 1982, Class 2a; RPC I 2233; RIC I 501; SNG von Aulock 6671. Near VF, dusty green patina, minor areas of roughness. Popular as a "portrait sestertius" of Augustus.

Ex Douglas O. Rosenberg Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 72, 14 June 2006), lot 1210.