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Titus (AD 79-81). Orichalcum sestertius (35mm, 25.93 gm, 7h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Unknown mint in Thrace(?), ca. AD 80-81. IMP T CAES DIVI VESP A-VG P M TR P P P COS VIII, laureate head of Titus right / S - C, Mars, nude save for cloak (chlamys) draped over far shoulder, advancing right, carrying transverse spear in right hand and trophy over left shoulder. RIC 499 (Thrace). BMCRE 310 (Lugdunum). CBN 324 (Bithynia). RCV 2531 (Rome). RPC 502 (Thrace). A superlative example of this intriguing and mysterious issue, struck on a medallic flan and possessing a portrait and reverse design of impeccable style, with a pleasing even brown patina and no signs of tampering.
Ex Cayón (13 December 2007), lot 3246.
Coinage under the Julio-Claudians and Flavians includes an enigmatic series of large bronzes with a distinctive broad fabric and "massive" portrait style that were clearly produced at a mint other than Rome, although they all have normal Latin legends. Carradice and Buttrey, in the new edition of RIC II, describes this mint as producing coins with "large portraits with heavy, muscular necks, large reverse figures and lettering that tends to be crowded and heavily seriffed." Various experts have placed this putative mint in Gaul (Lugdunum?), Bithynia, or Thrace; David R. Sear argues for a short-lived officina in Rome. The present specimen falls into this category, and is among the finest surviving specimens of this coinage.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 8000-11000 USD
Titus (AD 79-81). Orichalcum sestertius (35mm, 25.93 gm, 7h). NGC Choice AU 5/5 - 3/5, Fine Style. Unknown mint in Thrace(?), ca. AD 80-81. IMP T CAES DIVI VESP A-VG P M TR P P P COS VIII, laureate head of Titus right / S - C, Mars, nude save for cloak (chlamys) draped over far shoulder, advancing right, carrying transverse spear in right hand and trophy over left shoulder. RIC 499 (Thrace). BMCRE 310 (Lugdunum). CBN 324 (Bithynia). RCV 2531 (Rome). RPC 502 (Thrace). A superlative example of this intriguing and mysterious issue, struck on a medallic flan and possessing a portrait and reverse design of impeccable style, with a pleasing even brown patina and no signs of tampering.
Ex Cayón (13 December 2007), lot 3246.
Coinage under the Julio-Claudians and Flavians includes an enigmatic series of large bronzes with a distinctive broad fabric and "massive" portrait style that were clearly produced at a mint other than Rome, although they all have normal Latin legends. Carradice and Buttrey, in the new edition of RIC II, describes this mint as producing coins with "large portraits with heavy, muscular necks, large reverse figures and lettering that tends to be crowded and heavily seriffed." Various experts have placed this putative mint in Gaul (Lugdunum?), Bithynia, or Thrace; David R. Sear argues for a short-lived officina in Rome. The present specimen falls into this category, and is among the finest surviving specimens of this coinage.
HID02901242017
Estimate: 8000-11000 USD