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Offline saholz

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Need help with this 28mm As
« on: May 17, 2007, 11:14:02 am »
No obverse legend on this 28mm As is visible and I don't recognize the portrait, although I probably should. :-\

Any ideas?  Thanks.

Stan
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Re: Need help with this 28mm As
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2007, 11:27:13 am »
Stabbing wildly in the dark, which is always a dangerous thing to do. It looks like Vespasian with Spes on the reverse.
Something like this one perhaps (RIC 598 from wildwinds):-

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Martin
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Offline saholz

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Re: Need help with this 28mm As
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2007, 11:44:40 am »
Thanks for the response, Martin.  I have a Vespasian As with a Spes reverse in my collection, and this portrait just doesn't look right.  The reverse is probably Spes...in fact it is almost a perfect match to the other one I own.  That obverse portrait just doesn't strike me as Vespasian though.  Did he ever have a facelift?  ;)

Stan
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Re: Need help with this 28mm As
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2007, 12:38:03 pm »
Portrait looks Julio-Claudian to me...  Pat L.
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Re: Need help with this 28mm As
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2007, 01:21:16 pm »
A bit more like Domitian, perhaps?  There is also a left-facing Titus with Spes, but apparently only as a sestertius.
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Re: Need help with this 28mm As
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2007, 01:27:15 pm »
Looks like Agrippa to me. Here's a Wildwinds page of many examples:

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s1812.t.html
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Re: Need help with this 28mm As
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2007, 01:36:53 pm »
Possibly Domitian Caesar under Titus, like this one from Wildwinds.
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