CNG 109, Lot: 591. Estimate $2000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.80 g, 3h). Rome mint; P. Petronius Turpilianus, moneyer. Struck 18 BC. Ivy-wreathed head of Liber (or Bacchus) right / Augustus standing in biga of elephants advancing left, holding laurel branch and scepter. RIC I 283; RSC 479. Near EF, dark cabinet tone. Rare.

From the WRG Collection. Ex Coin Galleries (13 February 1991), lot 239.