Pleasing “Portrait Sestertius” of Augustus

391, Lot: 348. Estimate $500. Sold for $475. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain mint. Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ "Sestertius" (34mm, 26.19 g, 12h). Struck circa 25 BC. Bare head right / Large C A within laurel wreath framed by double-pelleted border. C. Howgego, "Coinage and Military Finance: the Imperial Bronze Coinage of the Augustan East," NC 1982, Class 2a; RPC I 2233; RIC I 501; SNG von Aulock 6671. VF, earthen green patina, light adjustment marks. Popular as a "portrait sestertius" of Augustus.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group 54 (14 June 2000), lot 1173.