Triton XVIII, Lot: 988. Estimate $2000. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.77 g, 6h). Colonia Patricia(?) mint. Struck circa 19 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head left / SIGNIS above, RECEPTIS below, S P Q R around, round shield inscribed CL • V; aquila and signum flanking. RIC I 86b; cf. RSC 267; BMCRE 420-1 = BMCRR Rome 4402; CRE Ashmolean 75-6; BN 1140 (same obv. die). EF, iridescent toning.

From the RAJ Collection. Ex Fred Shore FPL 65 (1995), no. 52.