Triton XVI, Lot: 1067. Estimate $1500. Sold for $4000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Titus. As Caesar, AD 69-79. AR Denarius (21mm, 3.40 g, 12h). Uncertain (Ephesus?) mint. Struck AD 76. T CAES IMP VESP CENS, laureate head right, wearing slight beard; small annulet below / FIDES PVBL, crossed right hands; caduceus, poppies, and grain ears behind. RIC II 1485 (Vespasian; this coin referenced and illustrated); RPC 1459; RSC 87a; BMCRE -; BN 375 (Vespasian). Superb EF, attractive cabinet tone. Superb portrait coin.

From the RCM Collection. Ex Forestier (8 June 2007), lot 85.