CNG 99, Lot: 587. Estimate $750. Sold for $600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 22.63 g, 5h). Rome mint; C. Plotius Rufus, triumvir monetalis. Struck 15 BC. OB above wreath, CIVIS within wreath, SERVATOS below wreath, wreath between two laurel branches / Legend around large S • C. RIC I 387; Martini, Augustus 375-7. VF, tan and brown surfaces, some deposits, hairline flan crack, adjustment marks.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.