Two Choice Domitius Domitianus Folles

Sale: Triton X, Lot: 762. Estimate $4000.  Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007.  Sold For $4750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Domitius Domitianus. Usurper, AD 297-298. Æ Follis (9.42 g, 12h). Alexandria mint, 1st officina. IMP C L DOMITIVS DOMITIANVS AVG, laureate head right / GENIO POPV-L-I ROMANI, Genius, wearing modius, standing facing, head left, holding patera in right hand, cradling cornucopia in left arm; at feet to left, eagle standing facing, head right, wings spread; -A//ALE. RIC VI 20 var. (wreath in beak); J. Lallemand, "Le monnayage de Domitius Domitianus," RBN (1951), p. 100, 8 and pl. VI, 17 corr. (obv. legend omits AVG). EF, brown surfaces with underlying silvering. Very rare. Bold strike on both sides, more hair and beard details than usually seen.