446, Lot: 231. Estimate $150. Sold for $106. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Octavian(?). Æ (27.5mm, 19.06 g, 11h). Bare head right / Fiscus, sella, quaestoria and hasta; Q below. RPC I 5409; FITA p. 13. Near VF, dark green patina, cleaning and smoothing scratches.

This issue has previously been attributed to a Macedonian mint with the portrait identified either as Brutus (Friedlander), Caesar (Grant), or to the governor of Syria, Gaius Sosius (in the trade). RPC presents a case for a Cilician or Syrian origin, supported by find data, with a suggestion that the portrait is Octavian. Issues of similar portrait style, very likely by the same engraver, include the “Princeps Felix” coinage from Cilicia (RPC 4082-3).