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334, Lot: 529. Estimate $100.
Sold for $240. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vitellius. AD 69. Æ As (28mm, 14.62 g, 6h). “Paduan” after Giovanni Cavino, 1500-1570(?). A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP AVG P M T P P, laureate head right / PAX AVGVSTI, S C across field, Pax standing left, holding branch and cornucopia. Robertson (HCC I) 50. Good VF, dark brown patina.


The Hunter Coin Cabinet specimen (Robertson 50) is from the same dies and is labeled “false?”. Kraay, in his review of HCC I in JRS 1963 (p. 178), also questions Robertson’s nos. 19 and 50 because of “...P M T P P” at the end of the obverse legend, concluding both to be forgeries of the 17th or 18th centuries.

Another is apparently in the British Museum, labeled a Paduan. Additionally, an example from the same dies was sold by Spink (as genuine) some years back for £325 (NumCirc XCV/8 [October 1987], no. 5676) and one appears on CoinArchives, hammering at $260.