CNG 111, Lot: 680. Estimate $7500. Sold for $9000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Domitian. As Caesar, AD 69-81. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.32 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck under Vespasian, AD 75. CAES AVG F DOMIT COS III, laureate head right / PRINCEPS IVVENTVT, Spes, draped, advancing left, holding up flower in right hand and with left raising hem of skirt. RIC II 787 (Vespasian); Calicó 913; BMCRE 154-5 (Vespasian); BN 132 (Vespasian – same rev. die); Biaggi 426; Jameson 78; Mazzini 374. Good VF, small flaw and minor die breaks on obverse.

From the Brexit Collection.