Triton XIX, Lot: 481. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (24.5mm, 11.98 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. Struck 25-20 BC. IMP • CAE-SAR, bare head right / AVGV STVS across field, six stalks of grain tied in a bundle. RIC I 481; Sutherland Group VIβ, – (unlisted dies); RSC 32b; RPC I 2214; BMCRE 697 = BMCRR East 264; BN 918-921. Near EF, deeply toned. Well centered and struck.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection, purchased from Classical Numismatic Group, June 1996.