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Author Topic: AE 17, founders plowing, which emperor?  (Read 1480 times)

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AE 17, founders plowing, which emperor?
« on: September 29, 2006, 05:27:55 pm »
Hi all,
this coin (AE17) seems to have the usual founders plowing right reverse, but who is the emperor on the obverse?
I could not find a match.

Thanks!

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Re: AE 17, founders plowing, which emperor?
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2006, 08:07:00 am »
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Re: AE 17, founders plowing, which emperor?
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2006, 09:36:28 am »
That's a tough one! The portrait looks a bit like Hadrian, or even Vitellius, but that's just guesswork. Maybe some cleaning would bring out the legends more clearly?

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Re: AE 17, founders plowing, which emperor?
« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2006, 01:49:23 pm »
Probably Titus as Caesar, Tyre, RPC 2045,
IMP T CAESAR AVG F / COL IVL AVG.

However that coin is AE 22-3, 10-16 gr., so we may have to look further!
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Re: AE 17, founders plowing, which emperor?
« Reply #4 on: October 02, 2006, 04:10:11 pm »
The legends are actually better in the picture, in hand they're very faint, cleaning would not make it better.

I can not make out any letter with certainty but I just can't see the IMP T CAESAR. For what it's worth the portrait looks like a slightly heavier Hadrian to me, but I'm not familiar with either Titus or Vitellius.
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