Augustus. Denarius; Augustus; 27 BC-14 AD, Lugdunum, 15-12 BC, Denarius, 3.85g. BM-451, Paris-1373, C-137, RIC-167a. Obv: AVGVSTVS - DIVI F Head bare r. Rx: IMP X in exergue, Bull butting r., pawing ground and flicking tail. Ex Sotheby's, New York, 21-22 June 1990, Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection, lot 668. As Sotheby's cataloguer observed, the same dies were also used to strike aurei: Giard, Monnayage...de Lyon, p. 78 and pl. IX, 18/17a.. VF
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