120, Lot: 104. Estimate $200. Sold for $211. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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DOMITIAN. 81-96 AD. Æ Sestertius (33mm, 23.59 g). Struck 85 AD. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Ceres seated left, holding grain ears in right hand and torch in left, facing Annona who stands right holding cornucopiae; between them is a modius set on an altar and a ship's stern. RIC II 277a; BMCRE 323; Cohen 17. VF, patina stripped, surfaces porous with numerous scratches on the obverse, edge rough.
From the Tony Hardy Collection.