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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Twelve Caesars| > |Titus| > GB83900
Titus, 24 June 79 - 13 September 81 A.D.
|Titus|, |Titus,| |24| |June| |79| |-| |13| |September| |81| |A.D.|, Spes was the Roman personification of Hope. In art Spes is normally depicted carrying flowers or a cornucopia, but on coins she is almost invariably depicted holding a flower in her extended right hand, and raising a fold of her dress with her left hand. She was also named "ultima dea" - for Hope is the last resort of men.
GB83900. Bronze as, RIC II 237, BMCRE II 216, BnF III 220, Cohen I 219, SRCV I 2550, Hunter I 65 var. (head left), F, well centered, flan cracks, corrosion, Rome mint, weight 11.774g, maximum diameter 28.9mm, die axis 180o, 80 - 81 A.D.; obverse IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P COS VIII, laureate head right; reverse Spes walking left, flower in right, with left raising fold of robe below hips, large S - C (senatus consulto) flanking across fields at center; SOLD











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