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   View Categories Home > Catalog > |Roman Coins| > |The Twelve Caesars| > |Vespasian| > RB89533
Vespasian, 1 July 69 - 24 June 79 A.D.
|Vespasian|, |Vespasian,| |1| |July| |69| |-| |24| |June| |79| |A.D.|, In Roman mythology, Aequitas was the minor goddess of fair trade and honest merchants. Aequitas was also the personification of the virtues equity and fairness of the emperor (Aequitas Augusti). The scales, a natural emblem of equity, express righteousness. The cornucopia signifies the prosperity which results from Aequitas and Aequitas Augusti.
RB89533. Copper as, RIC II 1229 (R), Lyon 88 var. (same), BMCRE II -, BnF III -, Hunter I -, Cohen I -, SRCV I -, F, well centered, Tiber patina, areas of porosity and corrosion, part of reverse legend weak, Lugdunum (Lyon, France) mint, weight 8.714g, maximum diameter 26.7mm, die axis 180o, 77 - 78 A.D.; obverse IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS VIII P P, laureate head left; reverse AEQVITAS AVGVSTI (equity of the emperor), Aequitas standing slightly left, head left, scales in right hand, cornucopia in left hand, S - C (senatus consulto) flanking across lower half of field; from the Errett Bishop Collection; rare; SOLD











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