Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1368. Estimate $600.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

AUGUSTUS. 27 BC-14 AD. AR Denarius (3.67 g, 11h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Struck 13-14 AD. [CAESA]R AVGVSTVS DIVI F PATE[R PATRIAE], laureate head right / PONTIF MAXIM, Livia, as Pax, seated left, holding branch in right hand, sceptre in left. RIC I 220; Lyon 93; RSC 223; BMCRE 545; BN 1693. EF, struck on a short flan. Rare. ($600)

Tiberius used this issue as the principal model for his own denarius, conventionally known as the "Tribute Penny."