Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1351. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $650. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 36 BC. AR Denarius (3.98 g, 6h). Southern or central Italian mint. Bare head right / Temple of Divus Julius: statue of Julius Caesar, holding lituus, within tetrastyle temple; DIVO IVL on architrave, star within pediment, altar at left. Crawford 540/2; CRI 315; Sydenham 1338; RSC 90. VF, gray and iridescent toning.

From the Marc Poncin Collection. Ex William C. Boyd Collection (Baldwin's 42, 26 September 2005), lot 126, with his original ticket (numbered 11); purchased from W.S. Lincoln, December 1897.