Triton XX, Lot: 699. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Titus. As Caesar, AD 69-79. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.20 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 77-78. T CAESAR IMP VESPASIANVS, laureate head right / COS VI, Roma seated left on shields, resting left foot on helmet, holding spear in left hand; bird in flight to either side; at feet, she-wolf suckling the twins Remus and Romulus. RIC II 954 (Vespasian); Calicó 738a; BMCRE 223 (Vespasian); Biaggi 364 var. (no helmet on rev.). VF, toned, a few marks, test cut on obverse.

From the Continental Collection.

This interesting aureus revives a reverse type of an anonymous Republican denarius of 115-114 BC (Crawford 287/1).