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20 December 2020
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Unique Dated Sestertius Struck During the Year of Mt Vesuvius

Starting Price: 500 CHF
Hammer Price:  1400 CHF
Lot 651

Domitian, as Caesar, 69-81. Sestertius (Orichalcum, 33.5 mm, 25.19 g, 7 h), uncertain mint in Thrace or Bithynia, circa 79. CAESAR AVG F DOMITIANVS COS VI Laureate head of Domitian to right. Rev. ROMA / S - C. Roma standing to left, draped with single breast exposed, wearing a crested helmet and being crowned by Victory who she holds in her extended right hand and holding a long spear with her left. Apparently unique and unpublished save for its previous auction appearance. With an excellent and well struck portrait. Attractive patina with natural earthen deposits. Struck during the famous year of the volcanic erruption of Mt Vesuvius. Uncleaned deposits on the obverse, otherwise, good very fine.

From the Brett Telford Collection, USA, ex Naumann 65, 6 May 2018, 601 (realised €1000).

The style and the fabric of this otherwise unpublished sestertius has to be related to the imperial coinage minted in Thrace and Bithynia, rather than to that from Rome, which was where it was attributed in its original auction appearance.

Online bidding closes: 20 Dec 2020, 20:25:30 CET Current Date & Time: 29 Mar 2024, 14:40:37 CET Remaining Time: Closed Hammer Price:1400 CHF by christfriedl (7 bids)
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