348, Lot: 619. Estimate $100. Sold for $70. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ As (25mm, 8.29 g, 6h). Lugdunum (Lyon) mint or possible contemporary imitation. Struck AD 77-78. IMP CAES VESPASIANVS AVG COS VIII P P, laureate head right / Eagle standing facing on globe, head left, with wings spread. RIC II 1237 note = Lyon Supplément II 93α var. (obv. legend). VF, dark green patina, some smoothing. RIC notes that the Lyon specimen with the eagle head left (rather than right) is possibly an imitation. The normal reading of the obverse legend for this series is the shortened reading of VESPASIAN, rather than this form..