Octavian, as Sole Imperator (31-27 BC). AV aureus (21mm, 8.00 gm, 5h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 3/5, brushed. Italian mint (Rome?), autumn 30-summer 29 BC. Bare head of Octavian right; linear border / IMP-CAESAR, Victory standing facing on globe decorated with celestial bands, wings spread, head left, wreath in right hand, transverse vexillum in left hand over shoulder; linear border. RIC I 268. Calicó 205 (Nicomedia or Nicaea) = Biaggi 104 (same dies). Struck from dies of lovely style. Breathtakingly beautiful in hand. From the Monaco Collection. Ex collection of Professor David R. Beatty, C.M., O.B.E (Triton XXIV, 19 January 2021), lot 984; George W. La Borde Collection (Part I, Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 91, 23 May 2016), lot 4; Götz Grabert Collection ("Collection of a European Scholar lately Deceased," LHS, Auction 97, 10 May 2006), lot 2; Kastner 4 (27 November 1973), lot 215; ESR (Eric von Schulthess-Rechberg) Collection (Hess-Leu [17], 23 March 1961), lot 37 The statue of Victory on this rare aureus stood atop the Curia Julia, the Roman Senate House.

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