Pedigreed to 1935

CNG 108, Lot: 590. Estimate $5000. Sold for $7500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (35mm, 26.22 g, 6h). “Judaea Capta” issue. Rome mint. Struck AD 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS III, laureate head right / VIC-TORIA AVGVSTI, S C in exergue, Victory standing right, with left foot on helmet, inscribing shield set on palm tree; to right, Judaea seated right, in attitude of mourning. RIC II 221; Hendin 1508. Near EF, brown patina, gentle smoothing on reverse. Exceptional portrait.

Ex Christopher Corbally Browne Collection (Sotheby’s, 25 March 1935), lot 192.