412, Lot: 498. Estimate $100. Sold for $80. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. Fourrée Denarius (18mm, 2.72 g, 6h). Contemporary imitation. Copying Lugdunum (Lyon) mint. Laureate head right / SPQR/ OB/ C S within oak wreath. Cf. RIC II (1st edition) 144 (obv. legend, plated) and (2nd edition) 1131 (aureus); cf. RSC 525b (obv. legend, plated); cf. BMC 341 (obv. legend, plated). VF, toned.

From the Dr. Allan Smith Collection. Ex Classical Numismatic Group Electronic Auction 238 (11 August 2010), lot 370.

There are no breaks in the plating revealing a core, but the low weight suggests this is a fourée.