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Unrecorded Variant of Very Rare Type

LOT 3069

Sold for (Inc. bp): £221


Vespasian AR Denarius. AD 69-79.

Ephesus mint; struck AD 69-70. IMP CAES VESPAS AVG, laureate head to right / CONCORDIA AVG, Ceres seated to left on throne, holding grain ears and poppy with right hand and cornucopia with left; sideways Φ under throne. RIC II.2 1400 var. (Φ in exergue); BMCRE -, cf. 434; RPC II 809 var. (same); RSC 65c var. (same). 3.19gr, 18mm, 6h

Good Very Fine. Unpublished variant of this very rare type.

PROVENANCE:
Ex German art market, 2000s;
Acquired from an EU collector living in London;
From the collection of Surrey, UK, gentleman.

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