66, Lot: 85. Estimate $200. Sold for $800. This amount does not include the buyer’s fee.

DOMITIAN. 81-96 AD. Æ Sestertius (36mm, 25.71 gm). Struck 85 AD. Laureate bust right, wearing aegis / Domitian standing left, sacrificing out of patera over altar; shrine behind, within is a statue of Minerva. RIC II 256; Cohen 491. Good VF, dark brown surfaces, obverse fields lightly smoothed, reverse fields heavily smoothed and details strengthened. Rare type. 

From the Paul McIlroy Collection. Ex Cornelius C. Vermeule III Collection (Classical Numismatic Group 50, 23 June 1999), lot 90