Sale: CNG 78, Lot: 1754. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2008.  Sold For $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Divus Vespasian. Died AD 79. Æ Sestertius (26.62 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck under Titus, AD 80-81. Legend around large S • C / Deified Vespasian seated right, holding scepter and Victory in cart drawn by a quadriga of elephants with riders. RIC II 257 (Titus). Good VF, two-tone brown surfaces, minor flan crack, shallow scratch across elephant to edge.

Ex Michael Weller Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 1008; Numismatica Ars Classica 25 (25 June 2003), lot 419.