Details
LOT 3597
Tiberius AR Denarius. Struck AD 36-37. Lugdunum mint.
TI CAESAR DIVI [AVG F AVG]VSTVS, laureate head to right / PONTIF MAXIM, Livia as Pax seated to right on chair with ornamented legs, her legs draped resting on footstool, holding sceptre and branch; on singular exergual line. RIC I 30 corr. (ornamented legs); BMCRE 48; RSC 16a. Very Fine. Toned.(3.72gr, 18mm, 4h.).
Provenance
From the private collection of a Suffolk, UK, gentleman, early 2000s.
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