UBS Gold & Numismatics > Auction 78 | Auction date: 9 September 2008 |
Lot number: 1379 | |
Lot description: ANCIENT COINAGE SPECIAL COLLECTION OF ROMAN IMPERATORS AND EMPERORS ROMAN EMPIRE Posthumous Coinage of Augustus No.: 1379 Schätzwert/Estimate: CHF 500 For Divus Augustus under Titus. Sestertius 80/81, Thracian mint. DIVVS AVGVSTVS – PATER Augustus, radiate and togate, seated to l., holding laurel branch in r. hand over burning altar, and sceptre in l. hand. Rev. IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII ROUND EST above large S C. 27,42 g. RIC 399 (184). BMC 261. C. 548. Komnick Type 1.0 var. RPC II 511. Fields smoothed. Slight oxidation on obv. Almost extremely fine. Ex Platt-Hall Coll., Auction Glendining, London, 19 July 1950, lot 836. Ex Auction Sotheby’s, London, 12 June 1899, lot144. |