AUGUSTUS SILVER DENARIUS – ISSUE WITH GREAT COMET OF 44 BC – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERATORIAL COIN (Inv. 19111)

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19111. ROMAN EMPIRE. AUGUSTUS, 27 BC–AD 14.
Silver denarius, 3.96 g, 18 mm. Issue of a mint in Spain (perhaps Colonia Caesaraugusta), ca. 19–18 BC.
Obv. CAESAR AVGVSTVS, head of Augustus right, wearing the oak crown (corona civica). Rev. DIVVS IVLIV[S], comet with tail upward.
RIC I 102.
Ex Áureo & Calicó 367, 6/2/2021, lot 2068.
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 4/5, Surface 4/5. This historic type depicts the Great Comet of 44 BC, here clearly associated with the deification of Julius Caesar.