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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7810729, member: 89514"]David,</p><p><br /></p><p>According to RIC 1219 and their photo on pl. 66, that coin too is in fact radiate not laureate, but the radiate portrait faces left, not right as on your acquisition and Addenda 1218A.</p><p><br /></p><p>It is interesting that this Pax type is so rare in this COS VIII Lugdunese issue for Vespasian, and that it so far occurs for him only in the variant "leaning on column". For Titus Caesar as COS VI, in contrast, the Pax type is commoner, and also occurs in a variant without column (RIC 1258-60). Apparently the type was struck mainly for Titus; maybe the examples for Vespasian are just mules, or if intentional were part of a small initial issue that was soon discontinued.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7810729, member: 89514"]David, According to RIC 1219 and their photo on pl. 66, that coin too is in fact radiate not laureate, but the radiate portrait faces left, not right as on your acquisition and Addenda 1218A. It is interesting that this Pax type is so rare in this COS VIII Lugdunese issue for Vespasian, and that it so far occurs for him only in the variant "leaning on column". For Titus Caesar as COS VI, in contrast, the Pax type is commoner, and also occurs in a variant without column (RIC 1258-60). Apparently the type was struck mainly for Titus; maybe the examples for Vespasian are just mules, or if intentional were part of a small initial issue that was soon discontinued.[/QUOTE]
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