Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 592. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $1375. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

ASIA MINOR, Uncertain mint. Augustus. 27 BC-14 AD. Æ "Sestertius" (35mm, 25.59 g, 11h). Struck circa 25 BC. Bare head right / Large C A within laurel wreath framed by double-pelleted border. RPC I 2233; Howgego, "Coinage and Military Finance: the Imperial Bronze Coinage of the Augustan East," NumChron 1982, Class 2a; RIC I 501; SNG Copenhagen -; SNG von Aulock 6671. Good VF, olive green-brown patina, minor obverse smoothing. Popular as a "portrait sestertius" of Augustus. ($1000)

From the John F. Sullivan Collection.