139, Lot: 245. Estimate $75. Sold for $85. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.03 g). Uncertain mint. Struck circa 17 BC. Bare head right within oak wreath / Candelabrum ornamented with rams' heads, within wreath entwined with bucrania and paterae. RIC I 540; RSC 2. Near VF, rough surfaces, edge ragged.
From the Tony Hardy Collection.
The youthful head on this controversial coin was identified by Cohen as Caius, the grandson and adoptive heir of Augustus; Mattingly, in RIC I (1st ed.), rejected this identification in favor of a "rejuven