Milestone achieved with sensible budget Titus

An excellent coin despite having some wear still has a lot of eye appeal. Actually this type with those legends is quite rare. My example is from the same die pair as yours, which goes to show not many dies of this type were produced. When I got it from Harry Sneh nearly 8 years ago I was quite thrilled!



Plus, I love your colourfully descriptive paragraph about the Flavian era!

 

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The Pegasus is correct. I'm uncertain about it's plural form.

 

Pegasi? Pegasuses? Has anybody ever seen 2 together?

 

You know who's missing from this thread? Julia Titi!


Julia Titi
Rome, AD 79-81 3.2 gm, 20.0 mm
Obv: IVLIA AVGVSTA TITI AVGVSTI F, diademed and draped bust, r.
Rev: VENVS AVGVST, Venus, naked to waist, standing r., holding helmet and scepter, resting l. elbow on column.
Refs: RIC-56; BMCRE-141; Sear-2612

 

Nice OP coin @Sallent, it fits in with my belief that well-worn coins can still be attractive. I've shared it before, but here's a denarius showing all the Flavian men together:

 

I love this coin even more every time you show it.

 

I was very happy to get my first coin of titus recently as well!




mine was also purchased from a forum member!

well played sallent!

 

Sweet, had no idea this coin was so uncommon. Makes it even better.

 

Nice purchase Salient. I saw that coin and considered it as well as some others and then completely forgot the auction because I was busy with the kids.

I do appreciate Ken's offerings and I am regretting missing the auction because I saw a nice selection of coins like yours: honest coins with readable legends, eye appeal and some scarcer types. If I recall right there were a lot of Flavian pieces as well as Trajan and Hadrian all pretty attractive enough for me to consider spending some money even though they are far from my primary collecting interests.

I just recently bought a copy of "Titus" with Anthony Hopkins on DVD. It's one of my favorites.