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Auction: 392 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale at NY INC
Lot: 2

The 'Ostorius' Collection | NGC Choice VF | Roman Empire, Tiberius (AD 14-37), AV Aureus, AD 30-37, Lugdunum, TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVSTVS, laureate head right rev. PONTIF MAXIM, Livia (as Pax) seated right, holding vertical sceptre in her right hand, palm frond in her left, ornate throne, single line below, 7.77g, 11h (Cohen 15; BMC 46; RIC I, 29; Calicó 305c), a historic pin-mark and scratch beforer nose and traces of smoothing before PAX, otherwise with an exceptional, sumptuous honey-blue tone overlying lustrous and largely original fields, all providing a fitting frame for the classic Tiberian visage, a pleasing very fine, in NGC Ancients holder, very harshly graded Choice VF ~ Brushed, Graffito, Ex Jewellery (Cert. #6768668-002) [Strike 5/5; Surfaces 2/5]

Estimate
$3,000 to $4,000

Starting price
$3000