Sale: CNG 69, Lot: 1507. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 8 June 2005.  Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUGUSTUS. 238-244 AD. AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm (11.66 gm, 12h). Pergamum mint. Struck circa 27-26 BC. Bare head right / Capricorn right, head left, bearing cornucopiae; all within laurel wreath. RIC I 493; Sutherland Group IV/III (O9/R-; unlisted rev. die); BMCRE 698 var. (lituus); RPC I 2211; RSC 16a var. (lituus). VF, light toning, tiny banker's mark, double struck. Attractive idealized portrait of Augustus. ($1000)