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<p>[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 4114394, member: 74968"]I understand that this might be confusing to those who do not specialize in Flavian coins. First, these 2 coins were sold as a group lot. I was not given the choice between them. Even if they had been separate lots I probably would have bid on both anyway.</p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with David that the first coin has the most interesting portrait. I would have bought that coin for that alone because I love the Ephesian portraits. In my opinion these portraits are some of the best for Vespasian ever struck. </p><p><br /></p><p>These are not the same coins. Not only does the portrait style and size differ but the obverse legends are different as well. In addition though the reverses are the same these coins were struck years apart. The first one was struck very early for Vespasian as Augustus in 69-70, while the one on the right was struck 7-8 years later!</p><p><br /></p><p>The portraits changed often and sometimes radically from issue to issue. I have a number of these Ephesian denarii and not one of the portraits looks like any other I have. However, there is also no way to mistake these coins as being struck anywhere but Ephesus as the style of the portraits is unique to that mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>While the first coin has an interesting mint mark for Ephesus, the second coin actually has an abbreviated for of the city name on the coin as a mintmark. On the reverse you can see EPHE. I did not have a denarius from Ephesus with this mint mark. I am happy to have one now. Usually with these coins I only collect the denarii rated R, R2, or R3. The coins with EPHE seem to be more common than those that have either no mintmark or the other types of mintmarks associated with the coins of Ephesus. However I also bought it for the excellent portrait.</p><p><br /></p><p>I can see that to some these coins may appear almost identical. I hope however that I have demonstrated that to me at least they are very different coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this addresses your questions. If not, please feel free to ask any other questions you may have.</p><p><br /></p><p> Andrew[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Orfew, post: 4114394, member: 74968"]I understand that this might be confusing to those who do not specialize in Flavian coins. First, these 2 coins were sold as a group lot. I was not given the choice between them. Even if they had been separate lots I probably would have bid on both anyway. I agree with David that the first coin has the most interesting portrait. I would have bought that coin for that alone because I love the Ephesian portraits. In my opinion these portraits are some of the best for Vespasian ever struck. These are not the same coins. Not only does the portrait style and size differ but the obverse legends are different as well. In addition though the reverses are the same these coins were struck years apart. The first one was struck very early for Vespasian as Augustus in 69-70, while the one on the right was struck 7-8 years later! The portraits changed often and sometimes radically from issue to issue. I have a number of these Ephesian denarii and not one of the portraits looks like any other I have. However, there is also no way to mistake these coins as being struck anywhere but Ephesus as the style of the portraits is unique to that mint. While the first coin has an interesting mint mark for Ephesus, the second coin actually has an abbreviated for of the city name on the coin as a mintmark. On the reverse you can see EPHE. I did not have a denarius from Ephesus with this mint mark. I am happy to have one now. Usually with these coins I only collect the denarii rated R, R2, or R3. The coins with EPHE seem to be more common than those that have either no mintmark or the other types of mintmarks associated with the coins of Ephesus. However I also bought it for the excellent portrait. I can see that to some these coins may appear almost identical. I hope however that I have demonstrated that to me at least they are very different coins. I hope this addresses your questions. If not, please feel free to ask any other questions you may have. Andrew[/QUOTE]
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