Triton XX, Lot: 608. Estimate $1000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Autumn 30-summer 29 BC. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.91 g, 11h). Uncertain Italian mint, possibly Rome. Laureate head right / Rostral column ornamented with two anchors and six beaks of galleys, and surmounted by a statue of Octavian, naked but for cloak over left shoulder, holding spear in right hand and parazonium in left; IMP CAESA[R] across field. RIC I 271; CRI 423; RSC 124; BMCRE 633-6 = BMCRR Rome 4349-51; BN 68-71. Good VF, toned.

From the Kallman Collection. Ex Prideaux Collection (Triton XI, 8 January 2008), lot 655; Münzen und Medaillen AG 79 (28 February 1994), lot 452.