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RIC 0601 Vespasian As
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IMP CAES VESP AVG P M T P COS IIII CENS
Laureate head of Vespasian right
VESTA SC
Doomed temple of Vesta in the Forum, showing four columns and containing statue of the goddess on pedestal
Rome 73 AD
9.48g
RIC 601 (R); Sear 2365; BMCRE 664
Rare
Ex-Calgary Coin
This celebrated temple had been rebuilt by Nero following the great fire of 64 AD. The Neronian structure survived until another conflagration late in the reign of Commodus and was again restored early in the 3rd century by Julia Domna. It was again rebuilt in more modern times where it still stands in the Roman Forum to this day.
Die notes from Curtis Clay:
"Same dies, and better condition, than the Paris spec., pl. LVII, 663.
The BM spec., pl. 26.9, also illustrated in RIC, pl. 40, 601, is also from the same rev. die, but a different obv. die.
The BM and Paris specimens of the same As for Titus COS II CENS are also from that same rev. die: BM pl. 27.7 = RIC pl. 42, 640; Paris pl. LIX, 689."
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