Watch List notes:

Vespasian. 40-as; Vespasian; 69-79 AD, Rome, 72 AD, As, 10.91g. RIC-400 (R2). Obv: IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS IIII Head laureate r. Rx: FELICITA - S - PVBLICA S C Felicitas standing l. holding short caduceus and cornucopia. Ex NAC 86, 8 October 2015, lot 163. From the same reverse die as a dupondius of Titus Caesar as IMP IIII TR P II COS II in the Paris collection, RIC pl. 38, 504. All sestertii and middle bronzes of Vespasian as COS IIII are rare: mostly marked R2 or R3 by RIC, pp. 84-6. Our particular As is not in BMC, Cohen, or the Paris collection; RIC-400 ranks it as R2 ("very few examples known") and cites a specimen in Budapest (without photo). Moreover the FELICITAS PVBLICA reverse type of our coin is rare on asses of any date during Vespasian's reign: usually this type was reserved for dupondii.Minor tooling in field. EF

Estimate: $800