Watch List notes:

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (21mm, 8.22 g, 10h). Rome mint; M. Durmius, moneyer. Struck circa 19-18 BC. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, head right, wearing oak wreath / M • DVRMIVS III • VIR, crab holding butterfly in its claws. RIC I 316; Calicó 133a (same dies as illustration); BMCRE 60 = BMCRR Rome 4566; BN 111-2; Biaggi 158 (this coin); Jameson –; Mazzini –. A few marks. Good VF. Very rare and enigmatic type.


From the Jonathan P. Rosen Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 31 (26 October 2005), lot 13; Münzen und Medaillen AG XIII (17 June 1954), lot 622; Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 158.