Exceptional High Relief Portrait

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 595. Estimate $2500.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $5500. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vitellius. AD 69. Æ As (11.56 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa April-December, AD 69. A VITELLIVS GERM IMP AVG P M TR P, laureate head right / CONCORDIA AVGVSTI, S C in exergue, Concordia seated left, cradling cornucopia in her left arm and sacrificing out of a patera in her right hand over a lighted altar to left. RIC I 171; BMCRE 72; BN -; Cohen 14. EF, dark green-brown patina. Exceptional high relief portrait.