Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 986. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DIVUS AUGUSTUS. Died 14 AD. Æ Sestertius (27.90 gm, 1h). Rome mint. Struck under Tiberius, 35-36 AD. DIVO/AVGVSTO/S P Q R in left field, statue of Augustus seated left on throne, holding laurel branch in right hand and sceptre in left hand, set on ornate car drawn by four elephants; each elephant has its own mahout / TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST P M TR POT XXXVII, large S C across field. RIC I 62 (Tiberius); MIR 2, 52-4; BMCRE 108 (Tiberius); BN 90 (Tiberius); Cohen 307 (Augustus). VF, mottled dark green and red patina, minor pitting and minor smoothing in fields. Rare. ($1500)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Frank Kovacs XII (30 November, 1995), lot 249; Nicholas V. Jamgochian Collection (Peus 340, 2 November 1994), lot 777; George Bauer Collection (Glendining's, 23 January 1963), lot 1143; M. Paul Vautier and Prof. Maxime Collignon Collections (Naville II, 12-14 June 1922), lot 145; Egger XXXIX (15 January 1912), lot 660 (where it realized RM 60).