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Details
LOT 2889
Augustus Fourrée Denarius. 15 BC. Lugdunum mint.
AVGVSTVS DIVI • F, bare head to right / Augustus, bareheaded and togate, seated to left on curule chair set on dais, extending his right hand toward two soldiers, each carrying parazonia and presenting laurel branches in their right hands; IMP • X in exergue. For prototype: RIC 165a; Lyon 13; RSC 133; BMCRE 445-6 = BMCRR Gaul 157-8; BN 1366-9. Near Very Fine.(2.98gr, 19mm, 1h.).
Provenance
Ex Lockdales, Suffolk, UK.
From the private collection of an Essex, UK, lady.
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