Watch List notes:

Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.85 g, 6h). Uncertain Spanish mint (Colonia Patricia?). Struck circa 18 BC. CAESARI AVGVSTO, laureate head left / S • P • Q • R • in exergue, Temple of Mars Ultor: round-domed, tetra-style temple set on podium of three steps; within, is a triumphal currus, carrying an aquila and a miniature, galloping quadriga right. RIC I 116; Calicó 285; BMCRE 387 = BMCRR Rome 4425 (same dies); BN 1218 var. (head right); Adda –; Biaggi –; Jameson –; Mazzini –. Scattered marks and scratches, slight bend in flan. Good VF. Extremely rare. Only one example in CoinArchives.

From the Menlo Park Collection. Ex Freeman & Sear inventory R3275 (2004).

This issue was one of many that were struck to commemorate the recovery by Augustus of the standards lost by Crassus to the Parthians.