Triton XIX, Lot: 466. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.87 g, 12h). Rome mint; P. Petronius Turpilianus, moneyer . Struck 19 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / TV RPILIANVS III VIR, Tarpeia standing facing, raising both hands, buried to her waist under ten shields; broken spear below. RIC I 299; RSC 494; BMCRE 29-31 = BMCRR Rome 4529-31; BN 157-160. Good VF, old, dark cabinet tone.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Review XXII.2 (Spring/Summer 1997), no. 26.