Exceptional Portrait of Octavian

389, Lot: 566. Estimate $3000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Summer 37 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 4.08 g, 7h). Mint in southern or central Italy. Bareheaded and bearded head right; IMP • CAESAR • DIVI • F • III • VIR • ITER • R • P • C around / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus; COS • ITER [• ET • TER •] DESIG around and to right. Crawford 538/1; CRI 312; Sydenham 1334; RSC 91; RBW 1826. Superb EF, toned, underlying luster, a little off center on reverse. Choice portrait of Octavian.

Ex Künker 277 (21 June 2016), lot 104; Triton XIX (5 January 2016), lot 434.