The New York Sale 2026 Ancient & World

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1199 Augustus (27 BC-14 AD). Silver Denarius (3.79 g, 19mm), ca. 12 BC. Uncertain eastern mint, possibly in Pannonia. Youthful, bare head right, CAESAR below, all within oak wreath. Reverse: Candelabrum, adorned with rams’ heads, AVG-VST, all within a floral wreath entwined with bucrania and pateras. RIC 540; RSC (Caius Caesar) 2. Deep gray tone. In NGC holder graded Ch VF : Strike 5/5; Surface 2/5, smoothing.

$1,500

NGC Certification Number 8557723-015

Ex Stack’s, ‘The John Whitney Walter Collection’. New York, November. 29, 1990, lot 16, comes with tag

In the past, the youth depicted on this coin was often attributed to Caius Caesar, son of Agrippa and Julia the Elder, but R. Prideaux argues that it can only be that of Augustus as the oak wreath was his personal signature. It had also been standardly dated to 17 BC and assigned to the Ludi Saeculares, but although they were religious in nature, they were not funereal, as the symbolism on this coin indicates. The major event after 17 BC that can be tied to this coin, notes Prideaux is the sudden death in 12 BC of Augustus’ chosen heir, Agrippa in Pannonia. This was a very hard loss for Rome and especially for its legions. Prideaux proposes that this issue was struck in Pannonia to pay the now leaderless Pannonian legions expediently – without having to wait for a delivery from the distant Lugdunum mint. A local celator unfamiliar with Augustus’ portrait produced the dies, which would explain the very youthful head. And thematically, the coin reminds the soldiers of Augustus’ corona civica, while honoring their beloved general.

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1200 Augustus (27 BC-14 AD). Silver Denarius (3.76g), ca. 8 BC. Lugdunum (Lyon). Laureate head right. Reverse: Caius Caesar on horseback galloping right, holding sword, shield and reins; aquila between two standards at left. RIC 199; Lyon 69; RSC 40. Pleasing deep gray tone over a small edge scrape and a few light scratches in the reverse exergue. In NGC holder graded XF; Strike 5/5; Surface 2/5, edge marks, marks.

$1,000

NGC Certification Number 8558036-004

Ex NAC, Auction I, Zurich, May 19, 1999, lot 1674 Ex Coin Galleries, Ancient and Modern Coins of the World and the United States, Paper Money and Medals, New York, Nov. 10th, 1999, lot 234, comes with tag

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