From the Gemini IV Auction, Closed January 8, 2008.



      Lot # 411 - Auction is closed.Estimate: US$4000 / Price 
      Realized: US$6500 
      Divus Titus. Gold aureus 



 



Divus Titus. (Died 81 AD). Gold aureus (7.09 gm). Rome, Restitution 
by Trajan, c. 107 AD. DIVVS TITVS, head laureate left / IMP CAES 
TRAIAN AVG GER DAC P P REST, winged thunderbolt on throne, with seat 
cover hanging down between front legs. BMCRE 705, pl. 24.11 (same 
obverse die). RIC 833 (R3). Cohen 403 (400 Fr.). Komnick, 
Restitutionsmunzen, Type 70, pp. 130 and 250–251. Good portrait with 
excellent surfaces. Bold fine. 

As Komnick suggests on pp. 136-137 of his book, the legend of this 
obverse die was probably originally IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M 
COS VIII, but that legend was then expunged and replaced by DIVVS 
TITVS. Traces of the original COS VIII survive below the bust (first 
noticed by Mattingly in BMCRE, very faint on our specimen), and 
there is further indistinct evidence of eradicated or altered 
letters below the new words DIVVS and TITVS and in the space between 
those two words, above the portrait. The reverse die of our coin is 
also known combined with two other obverse dies, one of Titus with 
lifetime legend and one of Divus Vespasian: see Komnick, pl. 28, F. 




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  ... Lot 411 sold for high bid of $6500 [ $7475, or approx 5157.75 EUR, 3812.25 GBP including the 15% buyers fee.] 

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