445, Lot: 427. Estimate $5000. Sold for $4250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.30 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 77-78. CΛESΛR VESPΛSIΛNVS ΛVG, laureate head right / ΛNNONΛ ΛVG, Annona, draped, seated left on throne, adorned with grain ears, feet on footstool, holding on her lap a sack of corn ears open, the ties, looped at one end, in her hands. RIC II 963; Calicó 590; BMCRE 290-4; BN 256-7; Biaggi 298; Jameson –; Mazzini –. Near EF, underlying luster, tiny old repair on obverse.

Ex Freeman & Sear 11 (23 November 2004), lot 302; Lanz 78 (25 November 1996), lot 564.