Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 846. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $4310. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUGUSTUS. 27 BC-14 AD. AV Aureus (7.92 g, 6h). Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck circa 18 BC. Laureate head right / Quadriga containing legionary aquila advancing left; dash rail surmounted by statuette of galloping quadriga; car ornamented with figures. RIC I 107a; Bahrfeldt 153/6 (same obv. die); CNR IV 186 (same obv. die); BMCRE 390 var. (head left); Calicó 275/275a (obv./rev.). Good VF, small scrape on reverse. ($4000)