Wonderful Tarraco Portrait of Vespasian

Triton XIV, Lot: 672. Estimate $10000. Sold for $24000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (19mm, 7.37 g, 6h). Tarraco mint. Struck AD 70. IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head right / COS • ITER TR • POT, Pax, draped, seated left, holding olive branch in extended right hand and cradling winged caduceus in left arm. RIC II 1311; Calicó 607; BMCRE 354 (same obv. die); BN 397-9. Near EF, lustrous, a few marks.