Details
LOT 3062
Augustus AE As. 27 BC-AD 14.
Lugdunum mint; struck 10-6 BC. CAES[AR PONT] MAX, laureate head to right / ROM ET AVG, front elevation of the Altar of Lugdunum, decorated with the corona civica between laurels, flanked by stylised male figures; to left and right, Victories on columns, facing one another. RIC I 230; BMCRE 550. Near Very Fine.(10.02gr, 26mm, 2h). [No Reserve]
Provenance
From an old UK collection;
From the collection of a London antiquarian.
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