CNG 97, Lot: 617. Estimate $1500. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.91 g, 3h). Rome mint; C. Sulpicius Platorinus, moneyer. Struck 13 BC. Bare head right / Augustus and Agrippa, bareheaded and togate, seated side by side, facing slightly left, on a bisellium, placed on a platform that is ornamented with three rostra; on left, staff or spear. RIC I 406; RSC 529. Good VF, toned, traces of shallow graffiti on obverse, reverse slightly off center. Rare.

From the Patrick H. C. Tan Collection.