Superb Domitian Portrait

389, Lot: 626. Estimate $500. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Domitian. AD 81-96. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.55 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck September AD 95–September AD 96. IMP CΛES DOMIT ΛVG GERM P M TR P XV, laureate head right / IMP XXII COS XVII CENS P P P, Minerva standing left, holding thunderbolt with right hand and spear with left; shield at her feet to right. RIC II 789; BMCRE 234; RSC 291. Superb EF, lightly toned.

From the KD Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 64 (17 May 2012), lot 2565.