Watch List notes:

Domitian. AD 81-96. AV Aureus (20mm, 7.43 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 86. IMP CΛES DOMIT ΛVG GERM P M TR P V, laureate head right / IMP XI COS XII CENS P P P, Minerva, helmeted and draped, advancing right, brandishing spear in right hand and holding round shield in left. RIC II.1 424; Calicó 870 (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 88 note (this coin referenced); BN –; Biaggi 417 (this coin). Underlying luster. Near EF.


From the John L. Cowan Collection. Ex CNG Inventory 828481 (January 2009); Leo Biaggi de Blasys Collection (Numismatica Ars Classica 49, 21 October 2008), lot 171; Münzen und Medaillen AG XIX (5 June 1959), lot 203; Cugnot Collection (Bourgey, 18 December 1912), lot 109.