OCTAVIAN ( AUGUSTUS ) SILVER DENARIUS – ITALIAN MINT ISSUE OF 36 BC WITH PRIESTLY IMPLEMENTS – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERATORIAL COIN (Inv. 16773)

$1,575.00

ROMAN IMPERATORIAL. OCTAVIAN (AUGUSTUS).
Silver denarius, 4.11 g, 19 mm. Issue of an Italian mint, ca. 36 BC.
Obv. IMP CAESAR DIVI F [III VIR ITER R P C], youthful head of Octavian right wearing short beard. Rev. COS ITER ET TER DESIG, priestly implements, including culullus, aspergillum, oenochoe, and lituus.
Crawford, 538/1; Sydenham, 1334.
Ex Vilmar Numismatics 4958 (2011) and Helios 6, 3/9/2011, 111.
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 4/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed”, with an exceptional portrait of the young Octavian.

Published: Vilmar Fixed Price List IV, no. 104.