Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 583. Estimate $1000.  Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009.  Sold For $1800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Titus. AD 79-81. Æ Sestertius (24.36 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 80-81. IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII, laureate head left / S C across field, Spes advancing left, holding flower in extended right hand and raising hem of skirt in left. RIC II 170; BMCRE 183-5; BN 174-5; Cohen 222. VF, handsome river patina, a shallow scrape below portrait, traces of green deposits.

From the White Mountain Collection.