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I'm having a flashback to my 4-H days of the last century.

 

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What a gloriously typical portrait of Vespasian.

 

Good looking coin!

My only Vespasian:


Vespasian, AD 1 Jul 69-24 Jun 79
AR, Denarius, 3.09g, 18mm; 6h; Rome, Jan-Jun AD 70
Obv.: IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG; laureate head right
Rev.: COS ITER TR POT; Pax seated left on chair without back, branch in right hand, caduceus in left

 

Awesome coin! The reverse possibly commemorates Vespasian's extension of Rome's pomerium.

 

Head Heart Hands Health! Showed sheep, cattle, dogs, rabbits, and leathercraft late '60's & early 70's.

Fantastic coins!

 

Summer at my Grandmother's farm in Vermont. That's what Heaven looks like for me.

 

Nice addition, Ray.

 

Great memories! I lived in Bennington for a year in the early 80s

 

The mountains of West Virginia; cool mornings with mist in the air and frost on the grass; The smells. The wondrous smells. Nothing like it. The cattle jockeying for a spot in the feed lot. Breakfast. Nothing can compare. Country ham, fresh eggs from the hen house, biscuits, red-eye gravy. Then, the darn school bus would stop down by the road and ruin an idyllic setting. Hrmmf!

 

Awesome looking Vespasian, really like the details on it.

 

awsome Vespa denarius , Ray , looks like Vespa never joined the Weight Watchers .

Heres mine, minted a couple of years earlier, and a couple of pounds lighter.

 

Thanks, Andres! He looks like an angry Mr. Pickwick.

 

Sweet addition!

 

nice pick-up on dear old dad (of the flavians), here's my vespasians (until otherwise known)

 

Nice coin, @Deacon Ray ! I have a fondness for Vespasian- he's always seemed to me to be the most approachable (on a personal level) of the "12 Caesars". Not a brilliant, scheming politician like Julius Caesar, or a depraved, mentally-unstable monster like Caligula, just a hard-working career military man, a widower trying to raise his two sons, until he finds himself thrust into the highest office and manages to bring stability to his people through hard work, common sense, and good humor. Here's two Vespasian coins from my collection, an imperial sestertius and an Egyptian diobol:

 

Great OP, I love ancient coins that show cattle, oxen, founders ploughing etc cetera, any kind everyday life on the ancient farm scene is very evocative to me.

 

Lovely denarius of Vespasian, Deacon Ray
I find the reverse quite endearing.

He does look at little earnest, doesn't he.

 

Sadly I don't have any Vespasian...

Except for this one!

 

My only Vespasian, for now. Searching for others.

Great addition D.R.

 

When I was a teenager, I had a friend who use to feed his dog cheese, lots of cheese. Vespasian has the same sort of painfully strained expression on his face that the dog often did.