Ex Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection

431, Lot: 387. Estimate $5000. Sold for $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.18 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 74. IMP CAESAR VESP AVG, laureate head right / FORTVNA AVGVST, Fortuna standing left on low wreathed base decorated with rams’ heads, holding rudder and cornucopia. RIC II 682; Calicó 632; BMCRE 145; BN 117 (same dies); Biaggi 322 (this coin). Good VF, a number of small marks.

Ex Künker 304 (19 March 2018), lot 1094 (hammer €4,800); Shulten (25 October 1984), lot 185; Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection, 322.