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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Limes, post: 4598651, member: 101013&quot;]I&#039;ll join in! Bare head, portrait to the left, and COS VII. (Or is the last I part of the chair?)</p><p>I found a similar type, on ACSEARCH, by gemini, auctioned in 2013. Perhaps - in case you don&#039;t know it yet - you might be interesting in the following note as well? </p><p>&quot;<i>Three aspects make this denarius noteworthy and rare: first the bare portrait, instead of laureate as normal; second the portrait facing left rather than the normal right; and finally the date TR P VII in the reverse legend, instead of TR P VI which is normal with this Pax seated type. Apparently the type continued to be struck for a short time only in 76 AD (COS VII). The COS VII on our coin indeed looks as though it might have been altered in the die from a previous COS VI, in the same way that on a parallel Pax-seated denarus die of Titus COS IIII was definitely altered to COS V, RIC 865 note and pl. 58 (enlargements). &quot;Extremely rare bare head, only seen on coins of 75 and 76&quot; (Harry Sneh); underpriced by Cohen at only two francs .</i>&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>And i&#039;ll throw in my COS VII (with the funky little head, which, according to David Atherton, was the style used henceforth <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1138888[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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