Calicó Plate Coin

CNG 105, Lot: 848. Estimate $15000. Sold for $17000. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (19.5mm, 7.37 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck AD 75. IMP CΛESΛR VESPΛSIΛNVS ΛVG, laureate head right / COS VI in exergue, bull butting right, lashing his tail. RIC II 768; Calicó 620a (this coin illustrated); BMCRE 160; BN 137-8; Biaggi 312. EF, a few minor marks on the edge.

Ex Numismatic Fine Arts XXX (8 December 1992), lot 233; Leu 30 (28 April 1982), lot 330.