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Triton XIX, Lot: 500. Estimate $1500.
Sold for $1100. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Civil War. AD 68-69. AR Fourrée Denarius (18mm, 2.48 g, 6h). Group IV (‘Military’[?] group). Uncertain (Southern Gaul?) mint. Struck AD 69(?). FIDES above, EXERCITVVM below, clasped right hands / FIDES above, PRΛETORIΛNORVM around bottom, clasped right hands. RIC I 121; AM 7; RSC 363a; BMCRE 69; BN 77. Good VF, toned, minor marks, traces of lacquer. Rare.


Ex Spink Numismatic Circular CXVI.3 (June 2008), no. RM3773 (not described as plated), purchased from Seaby, 25 March 1988.

Probably struck for use in the unsuccessful attempt by Vitellius’ agents to bribe the praetorian guard in Rome into betraying Otho.