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<p>[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7421687, member: 99456"]mine is very "Nero-like" as described above, but I also have a Vespasian that I think is Otho-like - although Otho clearly had more wavy hair in his official portrait. Maybe this is what happens when a mint worker, tired, starts cranking out new dies after being overworked for the Vitellius transition and he is starting up with his 3rd new portrait in < 9 months.[ATTACH=full]1289051[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Vespasian</b>, AR Denarius, Rome, AD 70</p><p><b>Obv: </b>IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head to right</p><p><b>Rev:</b> COS ITER FORT RED, Fortuna standing to left, resting right hand on prow and holding cornucopiae in left</p><p><b>Ref: </b><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).ves.19" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).ves.19" rel="nofollow">RIC II 19</a>; RSC 84[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Sulla80, post: 7421687, member: 99456"]mine is very "Nero-like" as described above, but I also have a Vespasian that I think is Otho-like - although Otho clearly had more wavy hair in his official portrait. Maybe this is what happens when a mint worker, tired, starts cranking out new dies after being overworked for the Vitellius transition and he is starting up with his 3rd new portrait in < 9 months.[ATTACH=full]1289051[/ATTACH] [B]Vespasian[/B], AR Denarius, Rome, AD 70 [B]Obv: [/B]IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG, laureate head to right [B]Rev:[/B] COS ITER FORT RED, Fortuna standing to left, resting right hand on prow and holding cornucopiae in left [B]Ref: [/B][URL='http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_1(2).ves.19']RIC II 19[/URL]; RSC 84[/QUOTE]
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