Triton XIX, Lot: 480. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (25mm, 12.01 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. Struck circa 25 BC. IMP. CAE SAR, bare head right / AVGVSTVS, garlanded altar sculpted with two confronting hinds. RIC I 479; Sutherland Group VI, 190 (O19/R– [unlisted rev. die]); RSC 33; RPC I 2215; BMCRE 694; BN 922–6. Good VF, deeply toned.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group XXXIII (15 March 1995), lot 709; Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica / Spink Taisei, 16 November 1994), lot 143.