The Triumvirs. Octavian. Autumn 30-summer 29 BC. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.86 g, 6h). Uncertain mint in Italy (Rome?). Laureate head of Apollo of Actium right, with features resembling Octavian / Octavian, as city founder, holding whip and plow-handle, plowing right with yoke of oxen. CRI 424; RIC I 272; RSC 117. Lightly toned with peripheral iridescence, underlying luster. Near EF. From the Wild Rose Collection, purchased from Sovereign Rarities, September 2018. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 106 (9 May 2018), lot 840.
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