428, Lot: 337. Estimate $500. Sold for $700. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.65 g, 4h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15 BC. Bare head right / IMP • X in exergue, bull butting right, left forefoot raised, lashing his tail. RIC I 167a; Lyon 19; RSC 137. Good VF, deeply toned, a pair of bankers’ marks on obverse. Well centered strike on both sides.

Ex J. S. Wagner Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 76, 12 September 2007), lot 1327.