This year I decided to enlarge my horizons to the Roman coinage and not to limit myself anymore to the Greek coins. First entry of the year (today's Roma sale): Vespasian AR Denarius. Rome, AD 72-73. [IMP] CAES VESP AVG [P M COS IIII], laureate head right / Vesta seated left holding simpulum; TRI-PO[T] across fields. RIC 359. 3.10g, 17mm, 6h. Ex American Numismatic Society. The coin is far from being perfect but I like this expressive portrait of Vespasian. The nice iridescent tone also catched my eyes.
Wow, Prokles => congrats on scoring that wonderful Vespasian winner! ahaha, it looks like he has a couple of neck-rolls (I doubt he had a fitness trainer, eh?) ... I guess there were more important ruler-duties goin' on at the time? - what am I gonna eat? - which one of my men wants to kill me? - does this toga make me look fat? edited Oh, I still only have one Vespasian example ... here it is for the first time in 2017 => congrats again on nailin' your 2017 entry-coin!! (it's a total winner)
Lovely! I stumbled onto the Roma auction while it was in progress and was very tempted bid on the OP coin. Glad to see a CoinTalk member scored it .
Thanks for the compliments! haha, he was not very fit indeed. It is the reason I like these roman portraits: they didn't try to hide the physic imperfections of the emperors (and their wifes). Your specimen is alo very nice (I prefer this reverse type with the eagle). Glad that you didn't bid on it ;-)
