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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 3177254, member: 74968&quot;]I have been wanting a second coin of Augustus for over a year but I just did not find the right one...until tonight. I just won this one in a Heritage auction for what I feel is a steal of a price.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin demonstrates why there is more to a coin than a letter grade definition. The coin is in an NGC slab and is graded VG 5/5 Strike 2/5 surface. When I saw the coin I thought to myself &quot;Wow, it has a great portrait full legends, and all the devices are extant and clear&quot;. That was enough for me, I had to have it. This Cistophorus of Augustus is imho a lovely rare coin. I believe as [USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] has intimated elsewhere that this coin did not bring a higher price because it did not have the magic letters AU or MS. I have found on Heritage that one can often get a deal if the slabbed coin does not have these letters. That is just fine by me. I am quite willing to accept a very nice VG into my collection. I would rather have this than an off centre vf with missing devices or legends with a poor portrait. I really like these big silver coins from this period, but there seems to be a lot of competition for them when they appear at auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another interesting thing about this coin is the placement of the obverse legend. There are 8 examples of this coin RIC 493 on Acsearch. 6 of them have the legend on the left hand side of the obverse, but only 2 have it at the bottom of the coin under the portrait like mine.</p><p><br /></p><p>Please post your coins of Augustus.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Augustus (27 BC-AD 14). AR cistophorus (25mm, 10.86 gm, 12h). NGC VG 5/5 - 2/5.</b>Pergamum, ca. 27-26 BC. IMP •-CAE-SAR, bare head of Augustus right / AVGVSTVS, Capricorn right, head left, bearing cornucopia on back; all within laurel wreath. RIC I 493. RPC 2211.</p><p>Heritage Auctions August 30, 2018</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]817885[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]817886[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And here is my other Augustus coin, a Capricorn reverse denarius.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]817887[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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