First period, Flavian standard, 81-82 A.D.
163. Silver denarius,
IMP CAES DOMITIAN AVG PONT, laureate head right
P P COS VII DES VIII, Wreath set on curule
chair.
Very rare with only a few surviving specimens, of which I can only
confirm one in the Curtis Clay coll., struck from the same dies. Also
this reverse die was used for my coin (no. 160) and for the normal variant of
this type struck with a different obverse die with DOMITIANVS. Another
interetsing feature is the oddly shaped V in AVG, which appears
on other dies too and it is the "signature" of perhaps a greek letter cutter.
Read the full article by Christopher Lezak
here.
One of the pictured coins is the same mentioned above; it belonged to Mr.
Lezak as well.