From the Platt Hall Collection
271, Lot: 57. Estimate $1500. Sold for $3250. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Julia Augusta (Livia). Augusta, AD 14-29. Æ Dupondius (28mm, 11.33 g, 6h). Rome mint. Restitution issue struck under Titus, AD 80-81. IVSTITIA, diademed and draped bust of Livia as Justitia right / Large S · C; IMP · T · CAES · DIVI · VESP · F · AVG · P M around outer ring, TR · P · P · P COS · VIII · RESTITVIT around inner. RIC II 405 (Titus); BMCRE 290 note (Titus - this coin, pl. 55, 6); Cohen 10. VF, greenish-brown patina, some very light rougness. Rare.
Property of Princeton Economics acquired by Martin Armstrong. Ex Classical Numismatic Group 50 (23 June 1999), lot 16. Henry Platt Hall Collection (Part I, Glendining’s, 19 July 1950), lot 868 (part of); E. Bourgey (16 December 1913), lot 31.