Ex Krämer Collection
436, Lot: 543. Estimate $3000. Sold for $2750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Vitellius. AD 69. AV Aureus (19mm, 6.89 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa late April–20 December. A VITELLIVS GERM IMP AVG TR P, laureate head right / LIBERTAS RESTITVTA, Libertas, draped, standing right, holding pileus in right hand and
vindicta in left. RIC I 104; Calicó 562a (same dies); BMCRE 30; BN 63-6; Biaggi 279. In NGC encapsulation, 4632919-005, graded F, Strike: 5/5, Surface: 1/5. Toned, marks typical of an ex-jewelry coin. Rare.
Ex Dr. Wolfgang Krämer Collection (Triton XIX, 5 January 2016), lot 509; G. Hirsch XLVIII (22 June 1966), lot 28.
According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, “Libertas”, the vindicta, which Libertas carries, was “the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation.”