Cavino Colosseum
435, Lot: 640. Estimate $100. Sold for $900. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee. |
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Titus. AD 79-81. Æ Cast “Sestertius” (35.5mm, 19.57 g, 6h). Paduan type. Early cast after Giovanni da Cavino, 1500-1570. Titus seated left, holding branch; at left, helmet and shield; around him, shields, spears, and cuirass / The Colosseum; to left, Meta Sudans; to right, a portion of a building. Johnson & Martini 1607-11; Klawans 1. VF, brown surfaces, some roughness.
From the Jonathan K. Kern Collection.