CNG 112, Lot: 577. Estimate $750. Sold for $950. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

The Triumvirs. Octavian. Autumn 30-summer 29 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.82 g, 7h). Italian (Rome?) mint. Laureate head of Apollo of Actium right, with features resembling Octavian / Octavian, as city founder, veiled and wearing priestly robes, plowing right with yoke of oxen, holding whip in outstretched left hand and plow-handle in right. CRI 424; RIC I 272; RSC 117. Attractive cabinet toning, a few light marks and scratches beneath toning, banker’s mark on Apollo’s neck. Good VF.

From the Andrew McCabe Collection. Ex Manhattan Sale 4 (8 January 2013), lot 129 (hammer $825); Sotheby’s (30 March 1995), lot 1034 (hammer £330).