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Auction X 13 January 2013
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Vespasian. 69-79 AD. Denarius, 3.13g. (8h). Uncertain Eastern Mint (annulet below portrait), 76 AD. Obv: [I]MP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG Head laureate right, annulet below portrait is off flan. Rx: COS - VII across field, Eagle standing left, head right, wings half raised, on altar. RIC 1471 (R2), pl. 79 (different dies). Berk 124, 3 Jan. 2002, lot 425 (also different dies). Not in BMC or the Paris collection from this mint. Some porosity on obverse. About VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection; acquired from Lanz, eBay, 8 February 2010.
A recent addition to the rare denarii of this "annulet" mint in Asia Minor, apparently unknown before the publication of Berk 124 late in 2001. BM 393 and RPC 1464 indeed knew this reverse type at the mint, but only as a mule with an obverse of Domitian Caesar, not with the correct portrait of Vespasian himself.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection; acquired from Lanz, eBay, 8 February 2010.
A recent addition to the rare denarii of this "annulet" mint in Asia Minor, apparently unknown before the publication of Berk 124 late in 2001. BM 393 and RPC 1464 indeed knew this reverse type at the mint, but only as a mule with an obverse of Domitian Caesar, not with the correct portrait of Vespasian himself.