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LOT 2856
Titus, as Caesar AE As. AD 69-79.
Lugdunum mint; struck circa AD 77-78. T CAES IMP AVG F TR P COS VI CENSOR, laureate head to right / Spes advancing to left, holding flower and raising her skirt. RIC II.1 786 (Vespasian). Near Very Fine.(7.56gr, 27mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From the collection of a London antiquarian, formed since the 1980s.
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