Octavian AR Denarius. Uncertain Italian mint (Brundisium or Rome?),

Octavian AR Denarius. Uncertain Italian mint (Brundisium or Rome?), 32-31 BC. Bare head to right / CAESAR DIVI F, Pax, draped, standing to left, holding olive-branch and cornucopiae. CRI 399; RIC I 252; BMCRE 605 = BMCRR East 236; RSC 69. 3.64g, 20mm, 5h.



Near Mint State; banker's mark to obv., a fine portrait and lustrous, shimmering fields.



From the Vogelberg Collection (Switzerland), formed c. 1960-1985.



Not listed by either Crawford or Sydenham as being issued under the Republic, the CAESAR DIVI F series was re-evaluated by Sutherland and placed firmly in this period, the present piece being struck for Octavian before the Battle of Actium.