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Offline Foro Di Mario

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Domitian?
« on: March 24, 2011, 10:42:57 am »
Is this Domitian?

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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2011, 10:54:52 am »
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2011, 05:37:59 pm »
As of Domitian.
RIC 224 (C2), Rome mint, 84 AD
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #3 on: March 24, 2011, 11:24:58 pm »
It says that it would be a "AR Cistophoric Tetradrachm". What is that? Is it a mixture of bronze and silver since it says AR? The coin looks bronze to me.

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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2011, 04:52:00 am »
No, that's a different coin. AR means silver.
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2011, 09:09:31 am »
So RIC 224 would not be correct. This coin is bronze.
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2011, 09:16:27 am »
I think rather than just having forum members present you with RIC numbers you should start with the basics, read the legends, do some research (e.g. on www.ascearch.info). A RIC number is secondary and by itself doesn't tell you much, especially if you don't have RIC.

With a few key words you can find most coins easily, especially Roman Imperials. It's much more fun that way.
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2011, 09:45:07 am »
Found this one to match it. What do you think?

http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=361843
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2011, 10:42:25 am »

Your coin has different obverse legend.

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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2011, 10:56:30 am »
Quote from: Foro Di Mario on March 25, 2011, 09:45:07 am
Found this one to match it. What do you think?

http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=361843


Looks more as a match (though different condition) to this one.
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=174712
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2011, 11:38:20 am »

Maybe more, but I think the legend contains
...DIVI VESP F before DOMIT...

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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2011, 11:49:56 am »
It does contain DIVI VESP F before Domit....
What I wanted to say is that   http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=361843 is more of a match to
http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=174712 than to the coin posted in first place. The differences in price
are quite notable.

 






 
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2011, 12:03:46 pm »
So then it is neither one of the links are the correct one. I'll keep searching.
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2011, 12:17:05 pm »
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2011, 05:40:51 pm »
It's tough to make out the legends...but if you say in hand you can read 'DIVI VESP F'...it could be RIC 208.

Obv - IMP CAES DIVI VESP F DOMITIAN AVG GER COS X
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Re: Domitian?
« Reply #15 on: March 25, 2011, 05:59:27 pm »
Yes, I think that's the only Rome-mint one (not copied by Agrippa II) that has the altar rev. type with DIVI VESP F in the obv. legend.
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