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Electronic Auction 493  9 Jun 2021
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Lot 537

Estimate: 100 USD
Price realized: 120 USD
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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. Æ Quadrans (18mm, 2.38 g, 2h). Mint in Gaul (auxiliary mint of Lugdunum?). Struck circa 10 BC. Laureate head right / Eagle standing facing with wings spread, head left. RIC I 227; Lyon –; RPC I 508. Green-brown patina, traces of porosity. VF. Scarce.

Ex RVP Collection (Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 310, 4 September 2013), lot 357.

Giard, in Le monnayage de l'atelier de Lyon, regards this issue as a product of an auxiliary mint of Lugdunum. They were probably minted in the territory of the Lingones, the Aedui, or the Sequani, if not struck in Lugdunum.
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