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Research Coins: Feature Auction

 
Sale: Triton X, Lot: 763. Estimate $5000. 
Closing Date: Monday, 8 January 2007. 
Sold For $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Domitius Domitianus. Usurper, AD 297-298. Æ Follis (9.59 g, 12h). Alexandria mint, 3rd 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; -G//ALE. RIC VI 20 var. (wreath in beak); cf. J. Lallemand, "Le monnayage de Domitius Domitianus," RBN (1951), pl. VI, 16 (for rev.); Hunter 1. EF, gray toning, underlying silvering, areas of brown and green on reverse. Very rare, particularly with this much silvering remaining.