Triton XXII, Lot: 1045. Estimate $5000. Sold for $12000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vitellius. AD 69. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.02 g, 5h). Rome mint. Struck circa late April-20 December AD 69. Λ VITELLIVS GERM IMP ΛVG TR P, laureate head right / PONT MΛXIM, Vesta seated right, holding patera in extended right hand, left hand holding short scepter propped on leg. RIC I 106; Calicó 571; BMCRE 33; BN 70; Biaggi 282. VF, underlying luster, some scattered marks.

From the DMS Collection. Ex Robert O. Ebert Collection (Part I, Stack’s Bowers & Ponterio 174, 11 January 2013), lot 5435; Triton III (30 November 1999), lot 1027.