Pedigreed to 1961

431, Lot: 385. Estimate $750. Sold for $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (32.8mm, 26.77 g, 6h). “Judaea Capta” commemorative. Rome mint. Struck AD 71. Laureate head right / VICTORIA AVGVSTI, S C in exergue, Victory standing right, foot on helmet, inscribing shield set on palm tree; on right, Judaea seated right, in attitude of mourning. RIC II 221; Hendin 1508. In NGC encapsulation, 4373083-001, graded VF, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 3/5, Fine Style, lt. smoothing.

Ex Michael Druck Collection (Stack’s Bowers and Ponterio, 17 January 2017), lot 5177; J. Schulman 235 (5 June 1961), lot 82.