CNG 88, Lot: 1272. Estimate $300. Sold for $505. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Titus. As Caesar, AD 69-79. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.36 g, 12h). Rome mint. Struck under Vespasian, AD 73. Laureate head right / Vespasian seated right on curule chair, feet on footstool, holding scepter and olive branch. RIC II 554 (Vespasian); RSC 158. Good VF, toned. Struck on a broad flan. Rare.

From the Sierra Collection. Ex Ponterio 104 (4 November 1999), lot 554.

Struck from the same obverse die as the aureus illustrated for Calicó 746.