Watch List notes:

Augustus, with Divus Julius Caesar. AR Denarius (17mm, 3.20 g, 3h). Rome mint; M. Sanquinius, moneyer. Struck 17 BC. AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, bare head of Augustus right / M • SANQVI NIVS • III • VIR, youthful, laureate head of deified Julius Caesar right; above, a comet with four rays and a tail. RIC I 338; RSC 1 (Julius Caesar and Augustus); BMCRE 71-3 = BMCRR Rome 4585-7; BN 278-80. Near EF, toned. Rare.


From the V. Robert Chiodo Collection. Ex Leu 71 (24 October 1997), lot 282.