Triton XIX, Lot: 458. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.68 g, 8h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, bare head right / IMP • X, Augustus, bareheaded and togate, seated left on curule chair set on daïs, extending right hand toward two soldiers, each carrying parazonium and presenting laurel branches in their right hands. RIC I 165a; Lyon 13; RSC 133; BMCRE 445-6 = BMCRR Gaul 157-8; BN 1366-9 . Good VF, toned, slightly granular surfaces, traces of deposits.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection, acquired from Classical Numismatic Group, December 1995.