Sale: Triton VIII, Lot: 1006. Estimate $5000.  Closing Date: Monday, 10 January 2005.  Sold For $5000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VITELLIUS. 69 AD. Æ Sestertius (26.00 gm, 6h). Rome mint. Struck April-December 69 AD. A VITELLIVS GERMANICVS IMP AVG P M TR P, laureate and draped bust right / S C across field, Mars, helmeted and nude but for flowing cloak, advancing right, holding spear in right hand and legionary aquila over left shoulder. RIC I 121; BMCRE 60; BN 95; Cohen 80; S pg. 424, 2208 var. (this coin). Good VF, brown surfaces, flan crack. ($5000)

From the Michael Weller Collection. Ex Kovacs Fixed Price List 28 (Spring 1995), lot 53; Numismatic Fine Arts XXVI (14 August 1991), lot 224.