329, Lot: 353. Estimate $300. Sold for $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Triumvirs. Octavian and Divus Julius Caesar. 38 BC. Æ Sestertius (30mm, 19.52 g, 4h). Southern Italian mint(?). Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard; star of eight rays before / DIVOS IVLIVS in two lines within laurel wreath. Crawford 535/2; CRI 309; Sydenham 1336. Near VF, brown patina, grayish-green deposits around edges.
From the Fairfield Collection. Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 298, 13 March 2013), lot 95.