Engraver’s Error
383, Lot: 490. Estimate $150. Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Triumvirs. Octavian and Agrippa. 38 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.16 g, 12h). Military mint travelling with Agrippa in Gaul or with Octavian in Italy. IMP CAESA (
sic) DIVI IVL[I], bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard / [M•]AGRIPPA COS/ DESIG in two lines across field. Crawford 534/3 var. (obv. legend); CRI 307 var. (same); Sydenham 1331 var. (same); RSC 545 var. (same). Fine, lightly toned, a couple deposits, banker’s marks, flan flaw on reverse. Unpublished with engraver’s error in obverse legend.
From the RBW Collection, purchased from Harlan J. Berk, October 2000.