Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1190. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $2000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain mint. Augustus. 27 BC-14 AD. Æ "Sestertius" (37mm, 29.03 gm, 1h). Struck circa 25 BC. Bare head right / Large C A within laurel wreath framed by double-pelleted border. RPC I 2233; C. Howgego, "Coinage and Military Finance: the Imperial Bronze Coinage of the Augustan East, " NC (1982), Class 2a; RIC I 501; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 6671. Near VF, river patina, minor cleaning scratches. ($500)

From the Rudolf Berk Collection.