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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD. Aureus, 7.17g. (7h). Rome, 76 AD. Obv: T CAESAR IMP - VESPASIANVS Head laureate left. Rx: AETER - NITAS Aeternitas, veiled, standing left before lighted altar, holding busts of Sun and Moon with rays and crescent respectively. RIC 867 (R3, unique in Rome, not illustrated). BM 303 note (citing the Rome spec. from R. It.1914, p. 176). Bust var. of Paris 267. Good Fine.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Malter 90, 21 September 2008, lot 134.
Apparently only the second recorded specimen of this interesting aureus with portrait left, the other being in the Gnecchi Collection in Rome. The same obverse die was also used for the type COS V, Heifer, RIC 869, pl. 10, and also for a denarius with reverse COS V, Eagle on altar, lot 645 below.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Malter 90, 21 September 2008, lot 134.
Apparently only the second recorded specimen of this interesting aureus with portrait left, the other being in the Gnecchi Collection in Rome. The same obverse die was also used for the type COS V, Heifer, RIC 869, pl. 10, and also for a denarius with reverse COS V, Eagle on altar, lot 645 below.