436, Lot: 516. Estimate $500. Sold for $320. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.57 g, 6h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, bare head right / OB/ CIVIS/ SERVATOS in three lines within oak wreath with wreath ties drawn upward. RIC I 77a; RSC 208; BMCRE 378-80 = BMCRR Rome 4391-2; BN 1154-61. Good VF, darkly toned, some scratches under tone, traces of earthen deposits.
From the DMS Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 809299 (March 2008); Ross Schraeder Collection.