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LOT 3101
Vespasian AE As. AD 69-79.
Rome mint; struck AD 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS III, laureate head to right / AEQVITAS AVGVSTI, Aequitas standing facing, head to left, holding scales in her right hand and sceptre in her left; S C across lower field. RIC II 287; Cohen 13; BMCRE 600. Good Very Fine.(11.29gr, 28mm, 6h.).
Provenance
From a private, UK, collection in the 1980s.
Property of a London, UK, antiquarian.
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