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E-Sale 85  17 Jun 2021
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Lot 1620

Estimate: 200 GBP
Price realized: 240 GBP
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Vespasian Æ As. Lugdunum, AD 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS III, laureate head to right, globe at point of bust / VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victory advancing to left, holding wreath and palm; S-C across fields. RIC II.1 1176; BMCRE 811† note. 11.29g, 29mm, 7h.

Very Fine; beautiful untouched patina and well centred. Rare.

From the property of an American collector;
Ex Roma Numismatics Ltd., E-Sale 38, 29 July 2017, lot 546.

The reverse type is taken from the Nero Dupondii and Asses: late Nero bronzes of this reverse type also exist with countermarks of Vespasian. Both indicators of a transitional time between the two emperors.
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