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    View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |Roman Provincial| > |Roman Egypt| > SH68885
Vespasian, 1 July 69 - 24 June 79 A.D., Roman Provincial Egypt
|Roman| |Egypt|, |Vespasian,| |1| |July| |69| |-| |24| |June| |79| |A.D.,| |Roman| |Provincial| |Egypt|, Vespasian was in Alexandria in the year this coin was struck. The Roman troops in Alexandria proclaimed Vespasian emperor on 1 July 69 A.D. When Vespasian heard the news, he was in Judaea. He left first for Syria and then to Egypt. The date of his arrival in Egypt is uncertain but he was in Alexandria when he learned of Vitellius death. Events in Egypt were staged and documented to draw parallels between the new emperor and Alexander the Great. Following in the footsteps of Alexander the Great 400 years earlier, he consulted oracles, entering the temple alone as Alexander did (Vespasian into the Temple of Serapis because under Ptolemy the oracles of Serapis had replaced the oracles of Ammon). He was acclaimed "God Caesar" and "Son of Ammon."
SH68885. Billon tetradrachm, RPC Online I 2412; Geissen 276; Milne 393; BMC Alexandria p. 29, 236; Curtis 262, Dattari 360 corr. (obv. leg.); Emmett 205/2 (R1), aVF, toned, excellent portrait, Alexandria mint, weight 14.700g, maximum diameter 27.0mm, die axis 0o, 29 Aug 69 - 28 Aug 70 A.D.; obverse AYTOK KAIΣ ΣEBA OYEΣΠAΣIANOY, laureate head right, LB (year 2) lower right; reverse Nike (Victory) flying left, raising filleted wreath in extended right hand, palm frond in left hand; from the Jyrki Muona Collection, ex Numismatica Ars Classica auction 59 (April 4-5, 2011), lot 1901; SOLD










|OBVERSE| LEGENDS|

CAESARVESPASIANVSAVG
DIVVSAVGVSTVSVESPASIANVS
DIVOAVGVESPSPQR
DIVOVESPASIANO
IMPCAESARAVGVESPASIANVS
IMPCAESARVESPASAVG
IMPCAESARVESPASAVGCOSII
IMPCAESARVESPASAVGCOSIIITRPPP
IMPCAESARVESPASIANVSAVGCOSIIITRPPP
IMPCAESARVESPASAVGCOSVTRPPP
IMPCAESARVESPASIAN
IMPCAESARVESPASIANVS
IMPCAESARVESPASIANVSTRP
IMPCAESARVESPASIANAVG
IMPCAESARVESPASIANAVGCOSIII
IMPCAESARVESPASIANAVGCOSIIII
IMPCAESARVESPAVG
IMPCAESARVESPAVGCOSVCENS
IMPCAESARVESPAVGVST
IMPCAESVESPASAVG
IMPCAESVESPASAVGPMTRPPPCSIII
IMPCAESVESPASAVGTRPCOSIII
IMPCAESVESPASIANAVGCOSIII
IMPCAESVESPASIANAVGCOSIIII
IMPCAESVESPASIANAVGCOSVIII
IMPCAESVESPASIANAVGCOSVIIIPP
IMPCAESVESPASIANAVGPMTRPPPCOSIII
IMPCAESVESPASIANAVGPMTRPPPCOSVCENS
IMPCAESARVESPASCOSIIICENS
IMPCAESARVESPASIANVSAVG
IMPCAESARVESPASIANVSAVGPMTPPPCOSIII
IMPCAESVESPAVGCEN
IMPCAESVESPAVGCENS
IMPCAESVESPAVGPMCOSIIII
IMPCAESVESPAVGPMCOSVCENS
IMPCAESVESPAVGPMCOSIIIICEN
IMPCAESVESPAVGPMCOSVCEN
IMPCAESVESPAVGPMTPCOSIIIICENS
IMPCAESVESPAVGPMTRPPPCOSIII
IMPCAESVESPAVGPMTRPIIIIPPCOSIIII
IMPVESPASAVGPMTRIPPPCOSIIII
IMPVESPASIANAVG
IMPVESPAVG
IMPVESPCAESAVGPONTMAXTRIBPOTCOSIIPP
IMPVESPCAESAVGPONTMAXTRIBPOTCOSIIIIPP
TCAESVESPASIANIMPPTRPCOSII


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