Two Choice Comet Denarii

CNG 102, Lot: 832. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.81 g, 5h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck circa 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, head left, wearing oak wreath / DIVVS • IVLIVS, comet with eight rays and tail. RIC I 37b; RSC 97; BMCRE 326-7 = BMCRR Gaul 138-9; BN 1298-304. Near EF, toned, some faint hairlines under tone.

From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Münzen und Medaillen AG 81 (18 September 1995), lot 194.