CNG 96, Lot: 779. Estimate $1500. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Domitian. AD 81-96. AR Cistophorus (26mm, 10.63 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 95. Laureate head right / Augustus and Roma standing within distyle temple inscribed ROM ET AVG in entablature. RIC II 854 (this coin cited and illustrated); RPC 875; RSC 407 var. (G in exergue). Good VF, toned. Very rare variant of an important architectural type.

Ex Harry Sneh Collection (Gemini IX, 8 January 2012), lot 460; A. Lynn Collection (sold privately by Freeman & Sear, 2009); Classical Numismatic Group 57 (4 April 2001), lot 1176.