Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 1425. Estimate $500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $735. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (29.00 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck AD 71. Laureate head right / Roma standing right, foot on prow, holding spear and parazonium. RIC II 446. VF, green patina, minor roughness, areas of edge smoothing.

From the Alain Lagrange Collection. Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 10, Sotheby’s, 24 October 1985), lot 110; Cahn 40 (23 February 1920), lot 245.