Triple Flavian Portrait

506019.

SOLD $14500

Vespasian, with Titus and Domitian as Caesares. AD 69-79. AR Denarius (18mm, 3.31 g, 12h). Dynastic type. Ephesus mint. Struck AD 71. IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS III TR P P P, laureate head of Vespasian right / AVG VESPAS above, LIBERI IMP below, confronted bare heads of Titus and Domitian; E(PHE) between. RIC II 1429; RPC 831; RSC 2a. Attractive iridescent toning. EF. Rare and outstanding triple dynastic portraiture.

Ex Gorny & Mosch 133 (11 October 2004), lot 434.