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LOT 3334
Domitian AE Sestertius. AD 88-89. Rome mint.
IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XIIII CENS PER P P, laureate head to right / IOVI VICTORI, Jupiter seated to left, holding Victory and sceptre; S C in exergue. RIC II.2 633; Cohen 313; BMCRE 406-7; BN 436-438. Near Very Fine. Tooled and smoothed.(28.79gr, 34mm, 7h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a gentleman, acquired on the London art market in the 1990s.
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