Roma Numismatics Ltd
Auction XVIII 29 Sep 2019
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Titus Æ Sestertius. Uncertain mint (Rome, or Thrace), AD 80-81. IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII, laureate head right / Mars, nude except for cloak and helmet, advancing right holding spear in right hand and trophy over shoulder with left hand; S-C across fields. RIC 499 (same obv. die); BMCRE 310 (Lugdunum); BN 324 (Mint in Bithynia); RPC II 502. 26.09g, 34mm, 6h.
Extremely Fine; some minor restoration around the feet of Mars (prior to 2008). Excellently detailed, with an exceptionally individualistic portrait of Titus.
Ex Michael S. Gasvoda Collection;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 94, 6 October 2016, lot 171;
Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung GmbH, Auction 169, 12 October 2008, lot 275.
Noted by Carradice and Buttrey in RIC II as having "large portraits with heavy, muscular necks, large reverse figures and lettering that tends to be crowded and heavily seriffed", the mint location for bronze coins such as the present piece still remains unknown. In operation through the Julio-Claudian and Flavian periods, during which time the main mints were at Rome and Lugdunum, suggestions including Gaul, Bithynia, or Thrace have been put forward.
Extremely Fine; some minor restoration around the feet of Mars (prior to 2008). Excellently detailed, with an exceptionally individualistic portrait of Titus.
Ex Michael S. Gasvoda Collection;
Ex Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 94, 6 October 2016, lot 171;
Ex Gorny & Mosch Giessener Münzhandlung GmbH, Auction 169, 12 October 2008, lot 275.
Noted by Carradice and Buttrey in RIC II as having "large portraits with heavy, muscular necks, large reverse figures and lettering that tends to be crowded and heavily seriffed", the mint location for bronze coins such as the present piece still remains unknown. In operation through the Julio-Claudian and Flavian periods, during which time the main mints were at Rome and Lugdunum, suggestions including Gaul, Bithynia, or Thrace have been put forward.