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Auction 111 29 May 2019
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Vitellius. AD 69. AR Denarius (19mm, 3.09 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck circa late April-20 December. Laureate head right / Libertas standing facing, head right, holding pileus and vindicta. RIC I 81; RSC 48. Near EF, attractively toned.
According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, the vindicta which Libertas carries was "the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation."
According to A Dictionary of Ancient Roman Coins by John Melville Jones, the vindicta which Libertas carries was "the rod with which a slave was touched during the ceremony of manumission or liberation."