Message:

<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 2882175, member: 82616&quot;]Specialists love minutiae. My latest arrival is a good example of such a minor detail being a cause for celebration. It also does not hurt the piece is a neat historical type. It took me ages to find an example with the rare variant!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]691040[/ATTACH]<b>Titus</b></p><p>AR Denarius, 3.15g</p><p>Rome Mint, 80 AD</p><p>RIC 104(R), BMC 40, RSC 306</p><p>Obv: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M; Head of Titus, laureate, bearded, r.</p><p>Rev: TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P; Captives, two, back to back, seated either side of trophy (man on l., woman on r.)</p><p>Ex Lanz, eBay, October 2017.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rare variant of the two captives type with the male and female captives swapping places. The reverse commemorates an Agricolan British victory, perhaps the occasion when his legions reached the river Tay garnering Titus his 15th imperial acclamation. Some scholars in the past have attributed the reverse as a &#039;Judaea Capta&#039; type, this is incorrect. The two captives echoes a Gallic victory type struck for Julius Caesar. The shields, like those on Caesar&#039;s denarii, are Celtic not Judaean in form. Additionally, H. Mattingly in BMCRE II correctly proposed the reverse alluded to a British victory.</p><p><br /></p><p>Even though the coin has some wear it still has good eye appeal.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is my more common variant of the type with the normal placement of the captives.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Titus</b>[ATTACH=full]691042[/ATTACH]</p><p>AR Denarius, 3.46g</p><p>Rome mint, 80 AD</p><p>RIC 102 (C), BMC 37, RSC 306</p><p>Obv: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M; Head of Titus, laureate, bearded, r.</p><p>Rev: TR P IX IMP XV COS VIII P P; Captives, two, back to back, seated either side of trophy (woman on l., man on r.)</p><p>Ex Berk 143, 18 May 2005, lot 176.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post any minutiae or captive types of interest![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

Your name or email address:

Do you already have an account?

• No, create an account now.
• Yes, my password is:
• Forgot your password?

Stay logged in