Triton XXI, Lot: 31. Estimate $750. Sold for $1600. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

EGYPT, Alexandria. Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Diobol (23mm, 10.25 g, 12h). Dated RY 5 (AD 72/73). ΑΥΤΟΚ ΚΑΙΣ ΣΕΒΑ [ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΥ], laureate head right / Draped bust of Isis right, wearing taenia and crowned with disk and horns; L E (date) to right. Köln 296; Dattari (Savio) 384; K&G 20.39; RPC II 2438; Emmett 217.5; Staffieri, Alexandria In Nummis 29 (this coin). Good VF, dark brown patina. Exceptional portrait and amongst the finest known.

From the Giovanni Maria Staffieri Collection. Ex Empire Coins 8 (7 December 1987), lot 372.