Triton XX, Lot: 626. Estimate $750. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (20mm, 3.62 g, 7h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Caesaraugusta?). Struck 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / S • P • Q • R to left, Victory flying right, holding in both hands a round shield inscribed CL • V, and laurel branch in right. RIC I 47a; RSC 289e; BMCRE 342 = BMCRR Gaul 153; BN 1325. VF, toned, minor porosity. Rare.

From the Kallman Collection. Ex Richard Prideaux Collection (Triton XI, 8 Janaury 2008), lot 740; Vecchi 4 (5 December 1996), lot 26.