CNG 102, Lot: 833. Estimate $3000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19.5mm, 3.85 g, 6h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck circa 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, head left, wearing oak wreath / DIVVS • IVLIVS across field, comet with eight rays and tail. RIC I 37b; RSC 97; BMCRE 326-7 = BMCRR Gaul 138-9; BN 1298-304. Near EF, attractive dark gray toning, traces of deposits.

Ex Triton XVII (7 January 2014), lot 621; Archer M. Huntington Collection (HSA 1001.1.22818).