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<p>[QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 6590260, member: 82616"]I won this sestertius in early December and worryingly it disappeared from tracking shortly after leaving Germany on the 15th of December. After many weeks went by with no further update I pretty much gave up on ever receiving it. To my utter amazement the coin arrived yesterday! A near three month long journey.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1265088[/ATTACH]<b>Titus</b></p><p>Æ Sestertius, 28.24g</p><p>Rome mint, 80-81 AD</p><p>Obv: IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII; Head of Titus, laureate, bearded, r.</p><p>Rev: PROVIDENT AVGVST; S C in exergue; Vespasian and Titus, both togate, stg. r. and l., together holding globe over rudder</p><p>RIC 161 (R). BMC 181. BNC 171.</p><p>Ex Teutoburger Auction 132/133, 1-5 December 2020, lot 459.</p><p><br /></p><p>An iconic dynastic type struck during Titus's fairly large bronze issue of 80-81. Mattingly in BMCRE II succinctly sums up the reverse: "A type of 'Providentia Augusti' shows Vespasian, now a god, handing over to Titus the 'regimen orbis', symbolized by a globe over a rudder. 'Providentia' is the virtue of wise foresight, which leads an Emperor to make the succession sure." This bit of imperial propaganda must have been extremely important to the new regime based on the commonness of the type. It was very important for Titus as the new princeps to show continuity with his father's policies. The powerful symbolism of Vespasian handing over 'the rudder of the world' to Titus is a brilliant piece of visual storytelling. This right facing portrait is slightly rarer than the left facing variant.</p><p><br /></p><p>Apologies if the above write-up seems somewhat familiar and redundant - by a quirk of fate I posted the left facing portrait variant last week. <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/regimen-orbis.375915/#post-6491688" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/regimen-orbis.375915/#post-6491688">https://www.cointalk.com/threads/regimen-orbis.375915/#post-6491688</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 6590260, member: 82616"]I won this sestertius in early December and worryingly it disappeared from tracking shortly after leaving Germany on the 15th of December. After many weeks went by with no further update I pretty much gave up on ever receiving it. To my utter amazement the coin arrived yesterday! A near three month long journey. [ATTACH=full]1265088[/ATTACH][B]Titus[/B] Æ Sestertius, 28.24g Rome mint, 80-81 AD Obv: IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII; Head of Titus, laureate, bearded, r. Rev: PROVIDENT AVGVST; S C in exergue; Vespasian and Titus, both togate, stg. r. and l., together holding globe over rudder RIC 161 (R). BMC 181. BNC 171. Ex Teutoburger Auction 132/133, 1-5 December 2020, lot 459. An iconic dynastic type struck during Titus's fairly large bronze issue of 80-81. Mattingly in BMCRE II succinctly sums up the reverse: "A type of 'Providentia Augusti' shows Vespasian, now a god, handing over to Titus the 'regimen orbis', symbolized by a globe over a rudder. 'Providentia' is the virtue of wise foresight, which leads an Emperor to make the succession sure." This bit of imperial propaganda must have been extremely important to the new regime based on the commonness of the type. It was very important for Titus as the new princeps to show continuity with his father's policies. The powerful symbolism of Vespasian handing over 'the rudder of the world' to Titus is a brilliant piece of visual storytelling. This right facing portrait is slightly rarer than the left facing variant. Apologies if the above write-up seems somewhat familiar and redundant - by a quirk of fate I posted the left facing portrait variant last week. [URL]https://www.cointalk.com/threads/regimen-orbis.375915/#post-6491688[/URL][/QUOTE]
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