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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD. Aureus, 7.15g. (7h). Rome, 76 AD. Obv: T CAESAR - IMP VESPASIAN Head laureate right. Rx: COS V in upper field, Heifer walking left. RIC 859 (R2), pl. 9 (same rev. die). BM 190, pl. 5.19 (same rev. die). Cohen 55 (BM, 50 Fr.). Calico 736 (same rev. die). VF/Good VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, acquired from James Beach in December 2009. Substantially rarer with the heifer walking left as here rather than right. "The heifer is unquestionably the famous statue of Myron which had been placed by Augustus in the 'Porticus Apollonis' and was transferred by Vespasian to the temple of Peace" (BMC, p. xxxviii).
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, acquired from James Beach in December 2009. Substantially rarer with the heifer walking left as here rather than right. "The heifer is unquestionably the famous statue of Myron which had been placed by Augustus in the 'Porticus Apollonis' and was transferred by Vespasian to the temple of Peace" (BMC, p. xxxviii).