Vitellius AR Denarius. Rome, AD 69. [A VIT]ELLIUS GERMAN IMP TR P, laureate head to right / LIBERI IMP GERMAN, confronted busts of Vitellius Germanicus and Vitellia. RIC I 79; BMCRE 12 note; RSC 5. 3.06g, 17mm, 6h.

About Good Very Fine; minor scratches to rev., attractively toned. Scarce; neither the British Museum nor the Bibliothèque Nationale possesses an example of this issue.

Ex Classical Numismatic Group, Triton XXIV, 19 January 2021, lot 143 (hammer: 4,250 USD);
Ex Harlan J. Berk Ltd., Buy or Bid Sale 121, 10 July 2001, lot 320.