Watch List notes:

The Roman Empire
Vespasian, 69 – 79

Aureus, Antiochia 72-73, AV 7.55 g. IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG Laureate head r. Rev. IVSTITIA – [AVG] Justitia seated r. on chair holding long staff in r. hand and laurel branches in outstretched l. C –. RBN, Notice sur l'ancien médaillier de la ville de Lyon, 1882, p. 403, 7. BMC p. 75*. Calicó 648.
Of the highest rarity, apparently only the third specimen known and only one of two
still in existence (the coin mentioned in RBN and BMC has probably been melted
during the French revolution). A very interesting issue bearing an
unusual portrait, slightly off-centre, otherwise extremely fine

Privately purchased from CNG.

I was offered this coin by Victor England at a CICF years ago. As far as he knew it was unique and after hemming and hawing over purchasing it I finally made the decision to add it to my collection. MSG.

We have decided to attribute this aureus to the mint of Antioch based on stylistic similarities found for the portraits and epigraphies with the obverse dies of RPC 1917, 1922 and 1923-6, all listed as Antioch. The obverse of this coin bears such a resemblance to that of 1917 that T.V.Buttrey has rightly remarked that it could indeed be the work of the same die- engraver noting in particular the similitude of the bust cut.