CNG 109, Lot: 611. Estimate $500. Sold for $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Anonymous issues. temp. Tiberius, AD 14-37. Æ Tessera (19mm, 3.86 g, 10h). Struck circa AD 22/3-37. Radiate head of Augustus right within plain border / VIIII within pearl border and wreath. Cf. Buttrey 6/VIIII (unlisted combination, radiate only); Cohen –; Kestner, Tesseren –; cf. NAC 40, lot 650 (same obv. die; different numeral). Good VF, green and red-brown patina, some smoothing. Very rare and interesting bust type.

From the Gasvoda Collection. Ex ArtCoins Roma 37 (19 September 2017), lot 465; ArtCoins Roma 19 (11 November 2015), lot 491; Naville Numismatics 12 (18 January 2015), lot 141; Numismatica Ars Classica 78 (26 May 2014), lot 2097.