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Numismatica Ars Classica > Auction 64Auction date: 17 May 2012
Lot number: 1064

Lot description:



The Roman Empire
Octavian as Augustus, 27 BC – 14 AD

Bronze, Hadrumentum Byzacenes 12-8 BC, 29.50 g. HADR – AVGVSTVS Bare head of Augustus r.; behind, apex and before, simpulum. Rev. CAESAR Bare head of Julius Caesar l.; behind, six-rayed star, before, lituus. Müller, MMA, 30. RPC 771.

Of the highest rarity, apparently only the fourth specimen known. Dark brown-green
patina, insignificant flan crack at eight o’clock, otherwise very fine
Ex Triton III, 1999, 805 and Triton XI, 2008, Villemur, 555. From the Villemur and Alberto Campana collections.



Estimate: 3000 CHF