Obverse: CAESAR DIVI F AVGVSTVS COS XII IMP, laureate head of Augustus facing right.

Reverse: CN DOMITI C POMPEIO II VIR C V I CEL, Bull standing right.

RPC I 278; Burgos 617. [Celsa, After 10 BC.]

Diameter: 29 mm. Weight: 14.4 g.

An superb and iconic copper As of Augustus, struck in the Spanish colony of Lepida-Celsa by the magistrates Domitius and Pompeius. A lovely example of this historically important type, struck on a large flan, perfectly centred with sharp detail and an excellent portrait of Augustus.