Sale: CNG 70, Lot: 905. Estimate $300.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 21 September 2005.  Sold For $400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

TITUS. 79-81 AD. Æ Sestertius (23.31 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 80 AD. Laureate head left / Spes advancing left, holding flower and raising hem of skirt. RIC II 100; BMCRE 184; Cohen 222. Fine, even brown patina with areas of green on reverse, tiny scrape on forehead. ($300)

Ex Harlan J. Berk Buy or Bid Sale 129 (24 October 2002), lot 285; Earle K. Stanton Collection (Knobloch List, March 1965), lot 774.