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VEHICVLATIONE ITALIAE REMISSA

186, Lot: 169. Estimate $300.
Sold for $750. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Nerva. AD 96-98. Æ Sestertius (34mm, 26.09 g). Rome mint. Struck AD 97. Laureate head right / VEHICVLATIONE ITALIAE REMISSA, SC in exergue, two mules grazing, one left and one right, cart with pole and harness behind. RIC II 93; BMCRE 119; Cohen 143; Banti 44. Good Fine, brown and green patina, some roughness.


Following the assassination of Domitian, Nerva attempted to correct his excesses and relieve some of the burdens imposed on the people of Italy. One of his acts was the assumption of the costs of the imperial post by the Roman government, a burden which had formerly fallen on the municipalities. Though this event is celebrated on this coin, no contemporary writers mention the act.