Watch List notes:

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.74 g, 6h). Uncertain eastern mint. Struck circa 12 BC. Youthful, bare head right; all within oak wreath / Candelabrum, ornamented with rams' heads and surmounted by a crescent; all within a floral wreath entwined with two bucrania and two pateras. RIC I 540; RSC 2 (Caius Caesar); J.F. Molina, et al., A Guide to the Denarii of the Roman Republic to Augustus (Madrid[?], 2002), 1 (Caius Caesar; this coin illustrated). EF, attractive cabinet toning.


Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 29 (11 May 2005), lot 441.