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Auction X  13 January 2013
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Lot 769

Estimate: 450 USD
Price realized: 700 USD
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Vespasian and Titus. 69-79 AD. Tetradrachm, 14.36g. (12h). Antioch, Year 2=69/70 AD. Obv: AVTOKPAT KA[IΣA OVEΣΠAΣ]IANOV Bust of Vespasian laureate left with fold of cloak on shoulder. Rx: ΦΛAYI O[EΣΠ KAIΣ ET]OYΣ NEOY IEPOY around, B in lower r. field, Laureate head of Titus right, star behind. RPC 1942 (31 spec., 5 obv. dies). Prieur 108 (3 spec.). McAlee 330. Specimen 15 of RPC 1942 is stated to show no fold of cloak on Vespasian's shoulder on the obverse, but our coin from the same dies shows that the cloak was indeed present on the die, and was just flatly struck on the RPC example. VF.

Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.
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