Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.57 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 71.

Triton XXV
Lot: 827. Estimated: $ 1 500

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Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.57 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 71. IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG P M T P P P COS III, laureate and draped bust right / HONOS ET VIRTVS, S C in exergue, Honos and Virtus standing facing one another: on left, Honos, bare to the waist, standing right, holding long scepter in right hand and cornucopia in left; on right, Virtus, helmeted, in military dress, standing left, right foot set on uncertain object, holding parazonium in right hand and vertical spear in left. RIC II.1 79; BMCRE 760; BN 487; Mazzini 203 (same dies). Dark green patina, light smoothing in fields. Good VF. Rare.

From the Dr. Jay M. Galst Collection. Ex Tony Hardy Collection (Triton VIII, 11 January 2005), lot 1114; Gilbert Steinberg Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica, 16 November 1994), lot 289.


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