93, Lot: 87. Estimate $300. Sold for $413. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TITUS. 79-81 AD. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.19 gm). Uncertain Thracian mint, perhaps Perinthus. Struck 80-81 AD. Laureate head right / Pax standing left, holding branch and cornucopiae. RPC II 501; RIC II 181; cf. Cohen 141. Near VF, dark green patina. 

Burnett reassigns the issues with Latin legends formerly attributed to Lugdunum, A.D. 80-82, to a mint in Thrace, perhaps Perinthus (cp. RPC II pp. 87-91, nos. 501-543). He bases this reassignment on the fact that while in Balkan museums these coins are plentiful, no examples have ever been found in the West; differences of fabric (for instance, the reverses of these tend to be very flat while those of the west are concave); stylistic affinities with coins from Perinthus; and unusual legends that are without parallel at western mints.