436, Lot: 490. Estimate $300. Sold for $605. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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The Triumvirs. Octavian. Spring-early summer 36 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 4.08 g, 6h). Southern or central Italian mint. Bareheaded and bearded head right / Tetrastyle temple of Divus Julius: statue of Julius Caesar as augur standing within temple; DIVO • IVL on architrave, star within pediment, figures along roof line; lighted altar to left. Crawford 540/2; CRI 315; Sydenham 1338; RSC 90 (Augustus); Type as RBW 1829. Good VF, weakly struck in centers, metal flaw on reverse.
From the Andrew McCabe Collection, purchased retail from CGB Numismatique, 2015. Ex Robert Couet Collection.