VEHICVLATIONE ITALIAE REMISSA

Triton XVIII, Lot: 1067. Estimate $1000. Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nerva. AD 96-98. Æ Sestertius (33.5mm, 26.45 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 97. IMP NERVA CAES AVG P M TR P COS III P P, laureate head right / VEHICVLATIONE ITALIAE REMISSA (With the levy for supplying the imperial transport system being abolished for Italy), S C in exergue, two mules grazing, one left, one right; behind, high-wheeled cart, with pole and harness (collars and traces), tipped up and pointing slightly to right. RIC II 93; Banti 44; BMCRE 120-1; BN 108. Near VF, brown surfaces, somewhat pitted, minor smoothing. Rare.

From the RAM Collection, purchased from R. M. Smythe, April 1999; Ex Numismatic Fine Arts IX (10 December 1980), lot 470.