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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8137738, member: 99456&quot;][USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] - always interesting to see your latest rarity! Titus, Vesuvius, propaganda...</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;After he had finished these exhibitions, and had wept so bitterly on the last day that all the people saw him, he performed no other deed of importance; but the next day, in the consulship of Flavius and Pollio, after the dedication of the buildings mentioned, he passed away at the same watering-place that had been the scene of his father&#039;s death. The common report is that he was put out of the way by his brother, for Domitian had previously plotted against him; but some writers state that he died a natural death. The tradition is that, while he was still breathing and possibly had a chance of recovery, Domitian, in order to hasten his end, placed him in a chest packed with a quantity of snow, pretending that the disease required, perhaps, that a chill be administered.&quot;</p><p>-Dio <a href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/66*.html#26.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/e/roman/texts/cassius_dio/66*.html#26.1" rel="nofollow">66.26.1-2</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a coin struck by Titus, in honor of his father, Vespasian, within a year of Vespasian&#039;s death in June 79, and Vesuvius&#039; eruption in August 79.&nbsp; This coin is undated, but likely struck in AD 80 on the occasion of Vespasian&#039;s deification.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1418296[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Divus Vespasian</b>, died AD 79, AR Denarius, Rome mint. Struck under Titus in AD 80.</p><p><b>Obv:</b> DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS, laureate head right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> E-X across field, round shield inscribed S C, set on low column, surmounted by an urn, flanked by laurel branches</p><p><b>Ref: </b>RIC II <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).tit.359" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).tit.359" rel="nofollow">359 (Titus)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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