Sale: CNG 72, Lot: 1356. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 June 2006.  Sold For $440. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Octavian. 31-30 BC. AR Denarius (3.73 g, 12h). Italian mint, possibly Rome. Bare head left / Victory standing left on globe, holding wreath and palm-branch. RIC 1 254b; CRI 407; RSC 64. VF, toned, test cut on edge.

From the Marc Poncin Collection. Ex William C. Boyd Collection (Baldwin's 42, 26 September 2005), lot 184, with his original ticket (numbered 11); purchased from Boynton, February 2, 1900; Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge (8 April 1895), lot 296.