Excellent Early Portrait

5730086.

Vespasian. AD 69-79. AV Aureus (18mm, 7.36 g, 6h). Rome mint. Struck January-June AD 70 (and later?). IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head right / COS ITER TR POT, Aequitas, draped, standing left, holding scales in right hand and pertica in left. RIC II.1 20; Calicó 604; BMCRE 16; BN 8-9; Biaggi 306. Much luster. Good VF. An early portrait.

Ex Berk BBS 113 (14 March 2000), lot 39; Ex Christie’s London (7 March 1985), lot 69.