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Octavian. Aureus, 7.80g. (10h). . , 31-30 BC. Obv: Head bare left, no legend, line border. Rx: CAESAR DIVI F in exergue, tensa in form of small temple with leaping quadriga at apex of pediment, drawn right by four pacing horses, line border.. Bahrfeldt 107.8 (this coin). C 77. BMC 590. RIC 259. CBN 80. Sear, Imperators 404. Calico 190 (this coin). Biaggi 99 (this coin). Rare. Faint evidence of mounting on edge; a few marks. VF.
Ex Randy Haviland Collection. Ex NAC 49, 21 October, 2008, lot 117. Ex Glendining's, 19 July 1950, Platt Hall I, lot 778. Ex Bourgey, 5 May 1913, lot 119. Ex Bourgey, 3 June 1912, lot 119. Ex J. Hirsch XXIX, 1910, Herzfelder, lot 912.
Not a triumphal quadriga on the reverse, as the standard catalogues say: see C. Clay, Die Munzpragung des Kaisers Nero, Num. Zeitschrift 96, 1982, pp. 45-47.
Ex Randy Haviland Collection. Ex NAC 49, 21 October, 2008, lot 117. Ex Glendining's, 19 July 1950, Platt Hall I, lot 778. Ex Bourgey, 5 May 1913, lot 119. Ex Bourgey, 3 June 1912, lot 119. Ex J. Hirsch XXIX, 1910, Herzfelder, lot 912.
Not a triumphal quadriga on the reverse, as the standard catalogues say: see C. Clay, Die Munzpragung des Kaisers Nero, Num. Zeitschrift 96, 1982, pp. 45-47.