Auction Name: 2026 January 22 - 23 NYINC World & Ancient Coins Signature Auction

Lot Number: 35013

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Augustus (27 BC-AD 14). AR denarius (17mm, 3.80 gm, 2h). NGC VF 4/5 - 3/5. Lugdunum, 8 BC. AVGVSTVS-DIVI•F, laureate head of Augustus right / C•CAES / AVGVS•F, Gaius Caesar on horse leaping right, reins in right hand, sword and shield in left; aquila right between two standards beyond. RIC I 199.

From The Peh Family Collection, Part IV. Ex Baldwin's, Auction XXV (5 January 2011), lot 49.

In 8 BC, Augustus introduced his twelve-year-old grandson and adopted son Gaius Caesar to the Roman army in Gaul. The bulla around Gaius' neck signifies that he was still a child and had not yet assumed the toga of manhood (J. Pollini, Gaius Caesar on horseback, Museum Notes 30, 1985).

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