Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 575. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Dupondius (12.66 g, 6h). Antioch mint. Struck AD 74. IMP CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG, laureate head left / PON • MAX • TR • POT • P • P • COS V • CENS •, winged caduceus upright between crossed cornucopias. RIC II 757; RPC II 1983.14; BMCRE 888-90; BN 904-6. Near EF, hard, dark green patina, areas of dark brown deposits on obverse.

Ex Lanz 128 (22 May 2006), lot 318; Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica, 16 November 1994), lot 297 .