Ancient Gold - Roman
Lot 1895 SESSION 11 (7.30PM WEDNESDAY 26TH NOVEMBER) Ancient Gold - Roman
Estimate $30,000
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VITELLIUS, (A.D. 69), gold aureus, Tarraco Mint, issued January - May 69, (7.32 g), obv. A VITELLIVS IMP GERMANICVS, laureate head to left, rev. Libertas, draped, standing right, holding pileus in right hand and vindicta (liberation rod) in left, around LIBERTAS RESTITVTA, (S.2177 [this coin], RIC 9, Calico 564 [this coin], BMCRE 88, Biaggi 280 [this coin]). A few light scratches, banker's mark on reverse, otherwise very fine or better and very rare.
Ex Anthony (Tony) Taylor Collection.^Triton XX, lot 681. Previously the Andre Constantine Dimitriadis Collection (Heritage 3032, 10 April 2014), lot 23563; Stack's (3 December 1996), lot 324.
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Estimate $30,000
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