403, Lot: 390. Estimate $300. Sold for $180. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Octavian(?). Circa 30 BC(?). Æ (28mm, 19.68 g, 12h). Bare head right / Fiscus, sella, quaestoria and hasta; Q below. RPC I 5409; FITA p. 13. VF, green patina.

This issue has been attributed to a Macedonian mint with the identification of the portrait as Brutus (Friedlander) or Caesar (Grant), or to the governor of of Syria, Gaius Sosius. RPC presents a case for a Cilician or Syrian origin, supported by find data, with a suggestion that the portrait is Octavian. Issues of similar portrait style, very likely by the same engraver, include the “Princeps Felix” coinage, RPC 4082-3, from Cilicia.