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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 4905899, member: 99456&quot;][USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] and [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] thanks for sharing your coins of this type - it is curious that the flans are all somewhat trapezoidal - this mint sloppiness seems odd to me in contrast with the thoughtful recall by the mint of types from ~100 years earlier.</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Related: </b>Buttrey, T.V. (1972). <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42666338" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/42666338" rel="nofollow">Vespasian as Moneyer</a>. <i>The Numismatic Chronicle (1966-),</i> <i>12</i>, 89-109.&nbsp; Buttrey discusses the imitative types across Vespasian&#039;s reign and challenging an earlier argument of Laffranchi on these coins and the civil war between Antony and Octavian.&nbsp; <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42666338.pdf#page=23" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/42666338.pdf#page=23" rel="nofollow">Plates 12 &amp; 13</a> show side by side the related coins he refers us to the Laffranchi article for coins not shown.</p><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>The Laffranchi article:</b></p><p>Lodovico Laffranchi, &#039;<a href="http://incuso.altervista.org/docs/rivista1911.pdf#page=423" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://incuso.altervista.org/docs/rivista1911.pdf#page=423" rel="nofollow">Un centenario numismatico nell&#039;antichità</a>&#039;, RIN 1911, 427-436 with <a href="http://incuso.altervista.org/docs/rivista1911.pdf#page=591" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://incuso.altervista.org/docs/rivista1911.pdf#page=591" rel="nofollow">Plate VIII</a> showing side-by-side the coins of Augustus and Vespasian. The Vespasian coin again displaying a somewhat trapezoidal flan shape.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1183666[/ATTACH]</p><p>Laffranchi describes (my translation): At that time coins were the official journal that brought news of all political, economic and military events of the day.&nbsp; Not only that, but even many years after an important historical event, it was also the coins that recalled, daily, the memory of past events to the eyes of the people.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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