Triton XVIII, Lot: 970. Estimate $1000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian and Divus Julius Caesar. 38 BC. Æ Sestertius or Dupondius (30mm, 20.49 g, 3h). Southern Italian(?) mint. Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard; sidus Iulium (star of eight rays) to right; DIVI • F downwards to left / DIVOS/IVLIVS in two lines within laurel wreath. Crawford 535/2; Alföldi & Giard – (D4/R–; unlisted rev. die); CRI 309; Sydenham 1336; RPC 621; Kestner 3829; BMCRR Gaul 108-10; RBW V1823. VF, hard dark green and brown patina, adjustment marks.

From the R.A.M. Collection. Ex Prince Waldeck Collection (Münzenhandlung Basel 3, 4 March 1935), lot 135.