Vespasian. 69-79 AD. Aureus, 7.00g. (6h). Spain, Tarraco, 70 AD. Obv: IMP.CAESAR.VESPASIANVS.AVG Head laureate right. Rx: COS.ITER - TR.POT Pax seated left holding branch and winged caduceus. RIC 1311 (R2), pl. 71 = BM 355, pl. 11, 7 (same dies). Calico 607. Carradice et al., Tarraco (2010), 8 (three specimens, from two obverse and one reverse die). A very rare Tarraco-mint aureus, apparently only the fourth specimen recorded. Distinctive portrait. About Very Fine.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Pegasi, 2011.