Sale: CNG 60, Lot: 1569. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 May 2002.  Sold For $1500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

LUCIUS VITELLIUS, father of Vitellius. AR Denarius (2.81 gm). Laureate and draped bust of Lucius Vitellius right, holding eagle-tipped sceptre / Laureate head of Vitellius right. RIC I 99; BMCRE 26 (Vitellius); RSC 2. VF, porous. Extremely Rare. ($1500)

On this coin Aulus Vitellius honors his far more successful and capable father, Lucius Vitellius. Among the accomplishments of the senior Vitellius were marriage to the daughter of Octavia, the removal of Pontius Pilate as governor of Judaea, and sharing the consulate with the emperor Claudius in 43 AD. Claudius left Vitellius in charge of Rome when he left to conquer the British.