★ A Magnificent Flavian Bronze ★

Vespasian Æ Dupondius. Rome, AD 71. IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS III, radiate head to right / ROMA, Roma seated to left on cuirass set before a pair of shields, wearing helmet and drapery exposing right breast, holding wreath aloft in right hand and parazonium at waist with left; SC in exergue. RIC II.1 277; C. 411; BMCRE 594-5. 12.91g, 27mm, 6h.

Near Mint State.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XXII, 8 January 2019, lot 1048;
Ex Bertolami Fine Arts - ACR Auctions, Auction 8, 4 February 2014, lot 511 (hammer: €14.500).