Extremely Rare Mark Antony and Octavian Aureus

Triton XXI, Lot: 668. Estimate $30000. Sold for $30000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Mark Antony and Octavian. November-December 43 BC. AV Aureus (21.5mm, 7.93 g, 1h). Military mint traveling with Antony in Cisalpine Gaul or Italy. Bareheaded and bearded head of Mark Antony right; M • ANTONIVS • III • VIR • R • P • C around / Bare head of Octavian right; lituus to left; C • CAESAR • III • VIR • R • P • C around. Crawford 492/1; CRI 124; Bahrfeldt 55 and pl. VII, 4 (same dies); Calicó 108; Sydenham 1162; Kestner –; BMCRR Gaul 47; RBW –; Biaggi 63. Good Fine, matt surface. Two attractive portraits struck on an exceptionally large flan. Extremely rare, only nine specimens known of which only three are in private hands.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 51 (5 March 2009), lot 99.