CNG 112, Lot: 608. Estimate $5000. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (17mm, 7.13 g, 7h). Tarraco mint. Struck AD 70. IMP CΛESΛR VESPΛSIΛNVS AVG, laureate head right / COS ITER TR POT, Pax, draped, seated left, holding olive branch in right hand and winged caduceus in left. RIC II 1311; Calicó 607; BMCRE 354-5; BN –; Biaggi 307-8; Jameson 60; Mazzini 94/b. light surface marks and scratches. Good VF.

From a European collection formed prior to the First World War.