From the Platt Hall Collection

Triton XV, Lot: 1505. Estimate $3000. Sold for $4200. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 26.70 g, 7h). Rome mint. Struck AD 77-78. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII, laureate head left / ANNONA AVGVST, Annona, draped, seated left, holding open on her knees a sack of grain ears, the ends held in her hands; S C across field. RIC II 988; BMCRE 731; BN 767. Near EF, green patina, some brown and red, areas of minor roughness. Rare.

Ex Henry Platt Hall Collection (Glendining, 16 November 1950), lot 1174.