Triton XX, Lot: 624. Estimate $5000. Sold for $8500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (22mm, 3.75 g, 5h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck 19-18 BC. Head left, wearing oak wreath / CAESAR above, AVGVSTVS below, two laurel branches (or trees) upright. RIC I 33b; RSC 48; BMCRE 318-20 = BMCRR Gaul 144-6; BN 1286. Choice EF, toned, struck on a broad flan.

From the Continental Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 42 (29 May 1997), lot 797; Giessener Münzhandlung 36 (8 April 1989), lot 404; Giessener Münzhandlung 33 (3 June 1986), lot 328.