Vespasian. AD 69-79. Æ sestertius (24,02 g). Rome mint, struck AD 76. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS VII, Laureate head right / Spes standing left, holding flower in raised hand and lifting up drapery of dress; S C across fields. Minor corrosion on obverse. Some smoothing and minor tooling on reverse. Thin patches of brown patina over orichalcum surfaces. RIC II.1 884, BMCRE 719, Acquired from Stanley Gibbons, London, in the 1970s Grade: 1+