TITUS SILVER DENARIUS – SCARCE TYPE STRUCK WHILE SERVING AS CAESAR – CHOICE XF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 19860)

$1,250.00

19860. ROMAN EMPIRE. TITUS, AD 79–81.
Silver Denarius, 3.30 g, 19 mm. Issue of Rome struck while serving as Caesar, AD 73.
Obv. T CAES IMP VESP CENS, laureate bust of Titus left. Rev. PONTIF TRI POT, Titus seated right on curule chair, holding scepter and branch.
RIC II.1, 556 (Vespasian)
Ex Numismatik Naumann, 8/6/2017, lot 553 (realized 1300 Euro hammer).
NGC graded CHOICE XF, Strike 5/5, Surface 3/5, “brushed,” with an exceptional portrait of Titus. Although RIC lists this variety as common (C), auction records indicate that it is seldom encountered as CoinArchives records some 20 specimens.