Triton XX, Lot: 713. Estimate $2000. Sold for $3500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Domitian. AD 81-96. AR Cistophorus (26mm, 10.54 g, 6h). Ephesus mint (or Rome for circulation in Asia). Struck AD 95. IMP CAES DOMITIANVS, laureate head right / Bundle of six stalks of grain; AVG GERM across field. RIC II 852 (this coin illustrated); RPC II 874; BMCRE 254; RSC 22a. Near EF, toned. Well struck for issue.

From the Kallman Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Inventory 862654 (January 2010); Classical Numismatic Group 57 (4 April 2001), lot 1157.

While no decisive evidence exists for the location of the mint of the cistophori during the reigns of Vespasian through Trajan, the style, legends, and, in particular, the consistent die axis point to Rome, suggesting that these coins were minted in the capital and then sent to Asia for local use.