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Engraver’s Error

383, Lot: 490. Estimate $150.
Sold for $110. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

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 Unpublished with engraver’s error in obverse legend.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.