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Auction X  13 January 2013
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Lot 727

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Domitian. 81-96 AD. Denarius, 3.17g. (6h). Rome, 88/9 AD. Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P VIII Head laureate left. Rx: COS XIIII - LVD SAEC FEC Herald walking left, wearing feathered cap, holding wand and shield. RIC 597 (R2), pl. 128 (Berk stock, same dies). Obv. legend var. of BM 133. VF.

Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection. Ex Helios 1, 17 April 2008, lot 245 (Frank Kovacs Collection).

Rare Saecular Games reverse type, very rare with portrait left on obverse. Our coin may be only the third recorded specimen, and also shares its dies with the other two, namely Berk stock 2005, cited and illustrated by RIC 597, and CNG 53, 2000, lot 1523.
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