424, Lot: 383. Estimate $500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.64 g, 9h). Rome mint; L. Mescinius Rufus, moneyer. Struck 16 BC. Laureate head right / Cippus inscribed IMP/ CAES/ AVG/ LVD/ SAEC in five lines; XV SF across field. RIC I 355; RSC 461. VF, toned, some porosity, a few scratches on obverse under tone. Very rare.

From the WRG Collection. Ex Superior (2 June 1998), lot 6934.