Triton XX, Lot: 681. Estimate $10000. Sold for $16000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vitellius. AD 69. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.32 g, 6h). Spain (Tarraco?) mint. Struck circa January-June. A • VITELLIVS • IMP GERMANICVS, laureate head left, globe at point of neck / LIBERTAS RESTITVTA, Libertas, draped, standing right, holding pileus in right hand and vindicta (liberation rod) in left. RIC I 9; CSB 28; Calicó 564 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 88; cf. BN 3 (Denarius); Biaggi 280 (this coin). VF, light marks, banker’s marks on reverse. Very rare.

Ex Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection (Heritage 3032, 10 April 2014), lot 23563; Stack’s (3 December 1996), lot 324.