Triton XIX, Lot: 477. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.68 g, 5h). Uncertain mint (Pergamum?). Struck 28 BC. CAESAR [DIVI F] COS • VI, bare head right; small capricorn below neck / AEGVPTO above, CAPTA below, crocodile standing right on ground line. RIC I 545; RSC 4; BMCRE 653-4 = BMCRR East 246-7; BN 928-30. VF, darkly toned, a couple banker’s marks on obverse, some marks under tone, several edge tests. Rare.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXI (9 September 1994), lot 859; Stack’s (7 December 1989), lot 3257; Frederick S. Knobloch Collection (Stack’s, 3 May 1978), lot 753.