Sale: Triton XI, Lot: 901. Estimate $10000.  Closing Date: Monday, 7 January 2008.  Sold For $28000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (7.40 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 77-78. IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head left / COS VIII in exergue, Vespasian standing left, holding spear and parazonium, being crowned by Victory holding palm branch. RIC II 106; Calicó 625; BMCRE 205; BN 183. Superb EF, lustrous.

From a North American Collection. Ex Michael F. Price Collection (Stack’s, 3 December 1996), lot 148.