Watch List notes:

The Triumvirs. Octavian and Julius Caesar. August 43 BC. AV Aureus (20mm, 8.11 g, 2h). Military mint travelling with Octavian in Italy. Bare head of Octavian right, wearing slight beard; C • CAESAR• COS • PO(NT) • (AV)G • around / Head of Julius Caesar right, wearing wreath; C • CAESAR• COS • PO(NT) • (MA)X • around. Crawford 490/2; CRI 132; Bahrfeldt 28; Calicó 52; Sydenham 1321; Kestner -; BMCRR Gaul 74-5; cf. CNR 1/3 and 4/2 (for type); RBW 1714. VF, traces of deposits in devices, several scrapes on obverse. Very rare.


From the estate of Thomas Bentley Cederlind. Ex Stack's Bowers & Ponterio (9 January 2015), lot 215.