Sale: CNG 76, Lot: 3290. Estimate $2000.  Closing Date: Wednesday, 12 September 2007.  Sold For $5960. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (7.36 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 77-78. Laureate head left / COS VIII in exergue, Vespasian standing left, holding spear and parazonium, being crowned by Victory holding palm branch. RIC II 106; Calicó 625. VF, minor marks, tiny edge split.

From the John A. Seeger Collection. Ex Nelson Bunker Hunt Collection (Part IV, Sotheby’s, 19 June 1991), lot 702.