AUGUSTUS SILVER DENARIUS – ISSUE OF SPANISH MINT WITH CLIPEUS VIRTUTIS AND LAUREL BRANCHES SEEMINGLY PEDIGREED TO 1898 – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 18821)

$4,000.00

18821. ROMAN EMPIRE. AUGUSTUS, 27 BC–14 AD.
Silver Denarius, 3.62 g, 18 mm. Issue of a Spanish mint, perhaps Colonia Caesaraugusta, ca. 19–18 BC.
Obv. Head of Augustus right, wearing an oak wreath (corona civica). Rev. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, two laurel branches flanking a shield inscribed CL V; S–P/Q–R around.
RIC I rev 36a (R3).
Ex Southern Collector, Vilmar FPL V (Summer/Fall 2023), no. 65 = CNG Triton XII, 1/6/2009, lot 535 = William C. Boyd Collection, Baldwin’s 42, 9/26/2005, lot 188, together with Boyd’s original ticket indicating purchase from Seltman in 1898. Presumably this refers to the E.J. Seltman Collection auctioned by Leo Hamburger on 6/13/1892, and although this denarius is not among the coins offered in that catalogue it may have been sold by private treaty.
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 4/4, Surface 4/4, the Boyd provenance noted on label, with superb golden iridescent highlights throughout.