Divus Vespasian Æ Sestertius. Rome, AD 80-81. D[IVO] AVG VESP, the deified Vespasian seated to right, holding sceptre and Victory in cart ornamented with captured arms and drawn by a quadriga of elephants with riders; S P Q [R] in exergue / [I]MP T CAES DIVI VESP F AV[G P M TR P P P COS VIII], around large S•C. RIC II.1 257 (Titus); BMCRE 221 (Titus). 26.77g, 35mm, 5h.
Good Fine; smoothed and tooled. Rare.
From the Antonio Carmona Collection.