Triton XIX, Lot: 453. Estimate $3000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20.5mm, 3.58 g, 6h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck circa 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, head left, wearing oak wreath / DIVVS • IVLIVS across field, comet with eight rays and tail. RIC I 37b; RSC 97; BMCRE 326-7 = BMCRR Gaul 138-9; BN 1298-304. Near EF, gray and iridescent toning.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 8 (3 April 1995), lot 738.