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Caesar's Comet

330, Lot: 307. Estimate $200.
Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.49 g, 7h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck circa 19-18 BC. Head left, wearing oak wreath / Comet of eight rays with tail upward. RIC I 37b; RSC 97. VF, toned, rough surfaces, cleaning scratches.


The obverse shows Augustus wearing the corona civica, an oak wreath awarded to an individual who had personally saved a citizen (in Augustus' case it was the citizen body of the Roman world). The reverse depicts the comet which made a continuous daylight appearance during July 44 BC and was associated with the deification of Julius Caesar.