ASIA MINOR, Uncertain. Augustus (as Octavian). 27 BC-AD 14. AR Cistophorus (28mm, 11.60 g, 12h). Ephesus mint(?). Struck 28 BC. Laureate head right / PAX, Pax standing left, holding caduceus; to right, serpent arising from cista mystica; all within laurel wreath. Sutherland Group I, – (O–/R48 [obv. die unrecorded]); CRI 433; RPC I 2203 (Cistophoric mint); RSC 218. Lightly toned, porosity, scattered marks. VF.
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