Sale: Triton IX, Lot: 1416. Estimate $1500.  Closing Date: Monday, 9 January 2006.  Sold For $1300. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

VESPASIAN. 69-79 AD. Æ Sestertius (24.00 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck 71 AD. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS III, laureate head right / PAX AVGVSTI, S C across field, Pax standing left, holding branch in right hand, cornucopiae in left. RIC II 437; BMCRE 554; BN 512; Cohen 327 corr. (obv. legend). Good VF, green patina with area of red on reverse, even light roughness, area of light smoothing in field on reverse. ($1500)