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Electronic Auction 531  25-26 Jan 2023
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Lot 1010

Estimate: 750 USD
Price realized: 3250 USD
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Augustus. 27 BC-AD 14. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.55 g, 4h). Rome mint; L. Vinicius, moneyer. Struck 16 BC. Equestrian statue of Augustus riding right on a low square pedestal inscribed S • P • Q • R/ IMP/ CAES in three lines; all before city wall with arched entrance / Cippus inscribed S • P • Q • R/ IMP • CAE/ QVOD • V/ M • S • EX/ EA • P • QIS/ AD • A • DE in six lines. RIC I 362; RSC 543; CNR III, 476 (this coin). Toned, light roughness, a few scrapes and scratches, hairline flan crack. Good VF. Well centered.

Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 92 (Part II, 24 May 2016), lot 2025; Westfälische Auktionsgesellschaft 49 (9 February 2009), lot 189; Münzen & Medaillen AG XXVIII (19 June 1964), lot 260.

Statues to Augustus were erected near the Porta Flaminia, outside the city. The obverse of this coin may represent one of them.
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