CNG 105, Lot: 793. Estimate $500. Sold for $3000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 4.20 g, 7h). Rome mint; L. Vinicius, moneyer. Struck 16 BC. Bare head right / Triumphal arch, surmounted by facing quadriga, in which Augustus stands, holding laurel branch and scepter; smaller arch on either side, surmounted by archer on left and by slinger on right; S • P • Q • R/IMP CAE in two lines on entablature of arch. RIC I 359; RSC 544. Good VF, attractive old cabinet tone, traces of deposits, a little weak on obverse. Rare.

From the Archer M. Huntington Collection, ANS 1001.1.10611.