CNG 97, Lot: 474. Estimate $500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LYDIA, Magnesia ad Sipylum. Augustus, with Livia, Caius, and Lucius. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ (21mm, 6.14 g, 12h). Dionysios son of Kilias, priest of Augustus. Laureate head of Augustus and draped bust of Livia conjoined right / Bare heads of Caius and Lucius, vis-à-vis. RPC 2449; SNG München 254; CRE Ashmolean 1358. Good VF, earthen dark green patina. Exceptional and possibly finest known.