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Coin Type: Silver denarius of Titus, Caesar 69-79 CE, Augustus 79-81 CE. Mint and Date: Rome, 73 CE (under Vespasian). Size and Weight: 17mm x 19mm, 3.16g Obverse: T CAES IMP VESP PON TR POT CENS Laureate head right. Reverse: NEP RED Neptune standing left, right foot on globe, holding aplustre in right hand in front and a tall sceptre behind. Provenance: thejackal12 (eBay), November 2008 Ref: RCV (2000) —; RIC II (2007) —; BMC —. BW Ref: 003 039 134 |
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Note 1: This coin is not listed in the new 2007 volume of RIC II (1). Denarii with this obverse legend are dated to 73 CE. A similar denarius without the CENS in the obverse legend is at Vespasian 366, dated to 72-73 CE. The compilers of the 2007 RIC II (1) were not aware that this type was also struck after the title CENS was added to the obverse legend, or they would have included this with the others having the same obverse, at Vespasian 528-531. A second example of this scarce coin, from a different die pair, was sold in the Gorny & Mosch auction on 10 March 2003. I do not know of any other documented examples. Note 2: Descriptions of this coin type often erroneously call the object carried by Neptune an acrostolium. | |
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