238, Lot: 370. Estimate $100. Sold for $76. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Vespasian. AD 69-79. Fourrée Denarius (19mm, 2.72 g, 6h). Copying Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Laureate head right / SPQR/ OB/ CS within oak wreath. Cf. RIC II (1st edition) 144 (obv. legend, plated) and (2nd edition) 1131 (aureus); cf. RSC 525b (obv. legend, plated); cf. BMC 341 (obv. legend, plated). VF.
There are no breaks in the plating revealing a core, but the low weight suggests this is a fourée.