Superior to the RPC Specimen
Sale: Triton X, Lot: 606. Estimate $1000. Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. Sold For $1400. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Domitian, with Domitia. AD 81-96. Æ Diassarion (19.80 g, 12h). Mopsouestia-Mopsus mint. Dated CY 162 (AD 94/5).
AUTOKRATOR KAIC
AR DOMITIANOC
GERM, laureate head of Domitian left /
DOM[ITIA] CEBACTH
MOYEATWN ETO
BXR (date), draped bust of Domitia right, wearing hair in elaborate coiffure with plait down back. RPC II 1743 (same obv. die); SNG France -; SNG Levante 1331 (same obv. die). Good VF, black-green patina with lighter green overtones. A far better specimen than the RPC illustration of the BM coin.