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<p>[QUOTE="Carl Wilmont, post: 6551390, member: 75496"]Congratulations on the Titus rarity, [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER]! What a nice surprise to discover that you actually won a coin that you thought you had lost!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a coin of Titus that is described as being "very rare" due to the left-facing portrait, but I haven't conducted very much research on it to further assess its relatively availability. There were 16 of this type (Hendin 1583) listed in acsearch, and only two of them had the left-facing portrait (Hendin 1583a).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1262755[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><b>Titus, 79-81.</b> AR Denarius (18 mm, 3.27 g, 7 h). Rome mint, 79 AD, after 1st of July. [IMP] TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M (outward); laureate head of Titus to left. <i>Rev.</i> TR P VIIII IMP XIIII COS VII P P; male Jewish captive kneeling right at base of trophy of arms with hands bound behind his back. Hendin 1583a. RIC 31 (R2). Very rare with portrait left.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Carl Wilmont, post: 6551390, member: 75496"]Congratulations on the Titus rarity, [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER]! What a nice surprise to discover that you actually won a coin that you thought you had lost! Here's a coin of Titus that is described as being "very rare" due to the left-facing portrait, but I haven't conducted very much research on it to further assess its relatively availability. There were 16 of this type (Hendin 1583) listed in acsearch, and only two of them had the left-facing portrait (Hendin 1583a). [ATTACH=full]1262755[/ATTACH] [B]Titus, 79-81.[/B] AR Denarius (18 mm, 3.27 g, 7 h). Rome mint, 79 AD, after 1st of July. [IMP] TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M (outward); laureate head of Titus to left. [I]Rev.[/I] TR P VIIII IMP XIIII COS VII P P; male Jewish captive kneeling right at base of trophy of arms with hands bound behind his back. Hendin 1583a. RIC 31 (R2). Very rare with portrait left.[/QUOTE]
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