448, Lot: 423. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Summer 37 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.58 g, 8h). Mint in southern or central Italy. Bareheaded and bearded head right / Emblems of the augurate and pontificate: simpulum, aspergillum, guttus, and lituus. Crawford 538/1; CRI 312; Sydenham 1334; RSC 91; RBW 1826. Toned, banker’s mark on obverse, traces of deposits on reverse. Fine.

Ex Kirk Davis FPL 19 (Summer 1997), no. 150 (part of).