CNG 99, Lot: 588. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.85 g, 6h). Uncertain eastern mint. Struck circa 12 BC. Youthful, bare head right; all within oak wreath / Candelabrum, ornamented with rams’ heads and surmounted by a crescent; all within a floral wreath entwined with two bucrania and two pateras. RIC I 540; RSC 2 (Caius Caesar). Good VF, minor flan flaw and shallow scratch on obverse, some underlying luster, obverse struck slightly off center.

From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.