Sale: CNG 67, Lot: 1381. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 22 September 2004.  Sold For $2900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DOMITIAN, as Caesar. 69-81 AD. AV Aureus (7.04 gm). Rome mint. Struck 73 AD. CAESAR AVG F DOMIT COS II, laureate head right / Temple of Vesta: statue of Vesta standing left within tetrastyle belvedere, two other smaller statues of minor goddesses to left and right. RIC I 230 (Vespasian); cf. BMCRE 412 (Vespasian; Lugdunum); Calicó 940; Cohen 614 var. (legend). VF, minor traces of encrustation. ($2500)

From the Tony Hardy Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica H (30 April 1998), lot 1895.