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The world's most wanted sesertius


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At its upcoming November auction, Norwegian Oslo Myntgalleri is offering the perhaps most wanted sestertius for auction with a starting price of about 63 000 $.

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The auction it not yet online, but the pdf catalogue can downloaded on the link below. The auction also offers a number of aureus in impressive quality. 

https://www.oslomyntgalleri.no/wp-content/uploads/OMG39_web-2.pdf

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Very nice! FWIW, at least two members of this forum have one already! Alas, I'm not one of them, though I do have this connected coin and I visited the Colosseum itself 20 years ago.

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Titus. 79-81 CE
AR Denarius 17.5mm, 3.29 g, 6h
Rome mint. Struck 1 January-30 June AD 80
Laureate head right
Elephant, with skin texture, walking left on exergual line
RIC II.1 115; RSC 303

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4 hours ago, kirispupis said:

Very nice! FWIW, at least two members of this forum have one already! Alas, I'm not one of them, though I do have this connected coin and I visited the Colosseum itself 20 years ago.

At least one is public information, from @AncientJoe:

Ancient Joe's example

Spectacular!

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