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Message:: [QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2349059, member: 19463"]I agree but I consider the building of so great a structure somewhat 'pivotal' and worthy of our interest.  In the case of Titus, perhaps more interesting to me are any of the Judaean types or the series that followed the eruption of Vesuvius.  Certainly anything architectural beats the 'someone standing there' types unless we know why that someone was standing there.  For example, Marcus Aurelius has a lot of coins with a god or personification but the ones showing Mercury commemorating the 'Miracle of the Rain' rise above the usual (while still not 'pivotal'). [ATTACH=full]478068[/ATTACH] Types that can be linked to any specific event are worthy of note and the Colosseum certainly was a big deal I would love to have represented in my collection.  Everyone knows that building so it sells well far above a portrait sestertius of Titus.  On the other hand, people would rather have a Caligula with text on the reverse than his issue for the completion of the lesser known Temple of the Divine Augustus.  Go figure.[ATTACH=full]478070[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]