Vespasian. AD 69-79. AR Denarius (18.5mm, 3.59 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 76. IMP CAESAR • VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head right / IOVIS CVSTOS, Jupiter Custos, bearded, naked, standing facing, holding vertical scepter in left hand and sacrificing out of patera in right hand over low garlanded and lighted altar to left. RIC II 849; RSC 222; BMCRE 276; BN 249. Lightly toned. Superb EF. Struck with dies of artistic merit.
From the Alan J. Harlan Collection. Ex Numismatica Ars Classica 106 (10 May 2018), lot 591 (hammer CHF 4500).