CNG 84, Lot: 1002. Estimate $600. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Domitian. AD 81-96. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 25.11 g, 6h). Secular Games issue. Rome mint. Struck AD 88. Laureate head right / COS XIIII [LVD SAEC] FEC, Domitian standing right, extending hand in blessing, dictating prayer to three matrons kneeling left; tetrastyle temple in background. RIC II 610. Near VF, dark red-brown patina on obverse, red and green patina on reverse, minor roughness and smoothing. Very rare.

From the John Bitner Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica O (13 May 2004), lot 1969.