Triton XIX, Lot: 482. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (25mm, 11.86 g, 12h). Ephesus mint. Struck circa 24-20 BC. IMP. CAE SAR, bare head right / AVGVSTVS, AVGVSTVS above altar hung with wreaths and garlanded; on front are two hinds standing right and left facing one another. RIC I 482; Sutherland Group VI, 416 (O155/R69); RPC I 2215; RSC 33; BMCRE 694-5 = BMCRR East 262-3; BN 922-6. Good VF, darkly toned, some shallow marks under tone on obverse, minor flan flaw on reverse.

From the J. Eric Engstrom Collection.