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Lot 27

Estimate: 22 500 USD
Price realized: 22 500 USD
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Vitellius. Aureus; Vitellius; 69 AD, Rome, Aureus, 7.33g. Cf. BMC-13 note, RIC-80 (R2), and Calicó-563. Obv: A VITELLIVS GERMAN IMP IR P (sic) Head laureate r. Rx: LIB[ERTAS] - RESTITVTA Libertas standing r. holding cap and scepter. With engraver's error IR P for TR P in obverse legend, forgetting to cross the T. Another specimen from the same dies, though its description does not point out the legend error: NAC 111, 24 September 2018, lot 163. Even without the error, this combination of obverse legend and reverse type is rare on aurei: not in the British Museum or Paris collections, nor in Cohen.. aEF
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