Triton XIX, Lot: 455. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.61 g, 6h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / Round shield inscribed S • P • Q • R/ CL • V in two lines. RIC I 42a; RSC 294; BMCRE 333-4 = BMCRR Gaul 128-9; BN 1311-5. EF, dark tone. Well centered and struck.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Nomos FPL 3 (Winter/Spring 2010), no. 99; Gorny & Mosch 180 (12 October 2009), lot 346; Pilartz 6 (27 February 1964), 12.