Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.88 g, 7h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck 17-16 BC. Near VF.

Triton XXVIII
Lot: 634. Estimated: $ 4 000

Roman Imperial, Coin-in-Hand Video, Gold

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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.88 g, 7h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck 17-16 BC. S • P • Q • R • IMP CAESARI, bare head right / QVOD • VIAE • MVN • SVNT •, double triumphal arch placed on a viaduct; on arch, Augustus standing right in a biga of elephants, holding branch in right hand, crowned by Victory, who stands behind him. RIC I 140; Bahrfeldt 190/5 (same dies); Calicó 263 (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 432 = BMCRR Rome 4462 (same dies); BN 1261 (same dies); Adda –; Biaggi –; Jameson –; Mazzini –; CNR IV 165/1 (this coin). Lovely reddish tone, mount marks on edge. Near VF. Very rare and missing from most collections. An interesting countermark on the obverse, perhaps from the renaissance era, that lost its silver inlay, possibly from the Gonzaga/Este Collection.

Ex Metropolitan Museum of Art Collection (Part I, Sotheby’s Zurich, 10 November 1972), lot 234; Joseph Grafton Milne Collection; H. Osborne O’Hagan Collection (Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge, 13 July 1908), lot 57; Sir Edward Bunbury Collection.


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