Reply to Thread

Message:: [QUOTE="lrbguy, post: 2862442, member: 88829"]I love the elephantine denarii, and yours is exemplary.  As usual the writeup draws me in. I was late with Vespasian, but so I have to be on time with Titus. Titus Flavius Vespasianus (79)BMCRE 61; RSC 313a; RIC -Minted at Rome <img src="https://www.coincommunity.com/forum/uploaded/lrbguy/20170812_11-Titus-den1-sm.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> IMP TITVS CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG P M (reading up from left) bare, laureate bust facing right When his father was called to Rome to serve as emperor in 69 AD, Titus was charged to finish the "pacification" from the Jewish war that had begun in 66. With the destruction of the Jewish temple in 70 AD, Titus determined most of that work was done, and headed for Rome to assist he father, leaving the cleanup operations to the 10th legion. For the next nine years he served as Caesar under his father, but was automatically advanced to Augustus in 79 AD after his fathers death, a position he occupied for only two years prior to his own death. As a result, out of 14 different obverse inscriptions on the denarii of Titus, only two bear the AVG title for him as Augustus, this one and a shorter version. TR P IX IMPXV COS VIII P Pthrone with triangular back[/QUOTE]