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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Twelve Caesars| > |Vespasian| > RS86448
Vespasian, 1 July 69 - 24 June 79 A.D.
|Vespasian|, |Vespasian,| |1| |July| |69| |-| |24| |June| |79| |A.D.|,
The Roman curule chair made its way along the Silk Road to China, where it was adopted in various forms including the hu chuang (barbarian bed). In Han China, the folding chair was used out-of-doors in a military, rather than domestic, setting by the 2nd century A.D. Its foreign origin was addressed in a poem by Yu Jianwu, written about 552:

By the name handed down you are from a foreign region
coming into [China] and being used in the capital
With legs leaning your frame adjusts by itself
With limbs slanting your body levels by itself...

RS86448. Silver denarius, RIC II-1 702, RSC II 364, BMCRE II 136, BnF III 110, SRCV I -, VF, superb portrait, toned, edge cracks, Rome mint, weight 3.432g, maximum diameter 19.1mm, die axis 180o, 74 A.D.; obverse IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head right; reverse PON MAX TR P COS V (high priest, holder of Tribunitian power, consul for the 5th time), Vespasian seated right on curule chair, feet on footstool, long scepter behind in right hand, olive branch in left hand; from the Lucas Harsh Collection, ex Gitbud & Naumann auction 36 (4 Oct 2015), lot 616; SOLD











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