Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 847. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $450. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUGUSTUS. 27 BC-14 AD. AR Denarius (3.69 g, 7h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 15-13 BC. Bare head right / Augustus seated left on curule chair set on daïs, receiving laurel branches from two soldiers. RIC I 165a; Lyon 15; BMCRE 446; RSC 133. VF, toned, surfaces smoothed. ($500)

Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 64, 24 September 2003), lot 931; Numismatica Ars Classica H (30 April 1998), lot 1792.