Commemorating Actium

342, Lot: 501. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.89 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI · F, bare head right / IMP · X across field, ACT in exergue, Apollo Citharoedus standing left, holding plectrum and lyre. RIC I 170; Lyon 27; Calicó 215. VF, ding in obverse field, scratches and marks on portrait, reverse slightly off center.

From the Dr. Wolfgang Krämer Collection.