The Triumvirs. Octavian. Spring-summer 42 BC. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.57 g, 5h). Military mint traveling with Octavian in Italy. Bare head right, wearing slight beard / Wreath set on inscribed curule chair. Crawford 497/2a; CRI 137; Sydenham 1322; RSC 55; RBW 1756. Deep old cabinet toning with iridescence, remnants of collector’s inventory number in the margin on the reverse. VF. A stunning portrait of Octavian. Very rare.
From the 1930’s Collection of Robert W. Hubel of Michigan. Ex Cahn 66 (6 May 1930), lot 569.
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