Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XXV 22-23 Sep 2022
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Augustus AR Denarius. Uncertain Eastern mint, 17 BC. Young, male head to right (Gaius Caesar?); CAESAR below; all within oak-wreath / Candelabrum ornamented with rams' heads; AVG-VST across fields; all within wreath entwined with bucrania and paterae. RIC I 540; BMCRE 684; RSC 2. 3.79g, 19mm, 7h.
Extremely Fine.
From the Vogelberg Collection (Switzerland), formed c. 1960-1985.
Often thought to depict a 'rejuvenated' Augustus, in 'Roman Coins and their Values' David Sear reasserts the identification first proposed by Henri Cohen: that this is in fact Gaius. Bearing little resemblance to other portraits of Octavian/Augustus, and struck in the same year that Gaius and his newborn brother Lucius were adopted by Augustus as his heirs, this attribution seems most likely.
Extremely Fine.
From the Vogelberg Collection (Switzerland), formed c. 1960-1985.
Often thought to depict a 'rejuvenated' Augustus, in 'Roman Coins and their Values' David Sear reasserts the identification first proposed by Henri Cohen: that this is in fact Gaius. Bearing little resemblance to other portraits of Octavian/Augustus, and struck in the same year that Gaius and his newborn brother Lucius were adopted by Augustus as his heirs, this attribution seems most likely.