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Auction X  13 January 2013
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Lot 650

Estimate: 500 USD
Price realized: 1100 USD
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Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD. Denarius, 3.18g. (6h). Rome, 79 AD. Obv: T CAESAR IMP VESPASIANVS Head laureate left. Rx: TR P VIII - COS VII Venus, seen half from behind, naked except for drapery around legs, standing right, left elbow on column, holding helmet and spear. Unpublished bust variety of RIC 1078 (C ), BM 255, Paris 223, and Cohen 332 (6 Fr.). Apparently unique. Interesting large portrait in high relief. VF.

Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.

This denarius is hitherto unrecorded with portrait left; Harry Sneh has reported it to the RIC authors, and this coin will become RIC 1078A in their projected supplement.
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