Sale: Triton XII, Lot: 588. Estimate $500. Closing Date: Monday, 5 January 2009. Sold For $1900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Domitian. AD 81-96. Æ Dupondius (14.98 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 86. IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XII CENS PER P P, radiate bust right, wearing aegis / ANNONA AVG, S C in exergue, Annona seated right, holding on lap by two ends a bag full of grain ears; in front of her stands a small figure left, also holding two ends of bag; in background on right, ship’s stern left. RIC II 477; BMCRE p. 379 ++ var. (no aegis); BN 407. Good VF, brown patina, minor roughness and smoothing.
From the White Mountain Collection. Ex Virgil M. Brand Collection (Part 7, Sotheby’s, 25 October 1984), lot 537.