Triton XVIII, Lot: 999. Estimate $300. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Quadrans (18mm, 3.20 g, 1h). Rome mint, Lamia, Silius, Annius, triumviri monetales. Struck 9 BC. LAMIA • SILIVS • ANNIVS • around, clasped right hands holding vertical caduceus / III • VIR • A • A • A • F • F • around large S • C . RIC I 420; Martini, Augustus 604-21; BMCRE 200 = BMCRR Rome 4617; BN 568-78. EF, attractive, copper-brown surfaces. Exceptional.

From the RAM Collection. Ex Richard Prideaux Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 78, 14 May 2008), lot 1682; Aretusa 2 (13 May 1994), lot 309.