TITUS BRONZE SESTERTIUS – JUDAEA CAPTA VICTORY WITH SHIELD ISSUE EX FRIEDRICH IMHOOF-BLUMER COLLECTION AND EX HIRSCH 1907 – GOOD VF ROMAN IMPERIAL PROVENANCED COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 21045)

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21045. ROMAN EMPIRE. TITUS, AD 69–79.
Bronze Sestertius, 26.91 g, 33 mm. Issue of Rome while serving as Caesar, AD 71.
Obv. T CAES VESPASIAN IMP PON TR POT COS II, laureate head of Titus right. Rev. VICTORIA AVGVSTI, Victoria standing right, inscribing shield on a palm tree, her foot on a helmet, [SC in exergue].
RIC II.1, 433 (var., SC in field); Hendin, 6th edition, 6570.
Ex Stöcklin collection, Nomos 14, 5/17/2017, lot 347 = Cahn 71, 10/14/1931, 1529 = ex Friedrich Imhoof–Blumer Collection, Jacob Hirsch 18, 5/27/1907, lot 700 (although this coin is not illustrated in the Hirsch 18 sale, the Nomos 14 description confirms the Imhoof–Blumer provenance based on a cast of this coin in the Winterthur museum).
Good VF, splendid light brown patina, a very rare variety lacking the S–C in field and with a truly outstanding pedigree.