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<p>[QUOTE="Numisnewbiest, post: 3866071, member: 99613"]I'm not nearly experienced enough to start picking away at details about this coin, but it's a very common coin - except in this particular combination of portrait/obverse legend/reverse. In this specific combination, it's not listed in RIC, Cohen 308 or 309, CoinArchivesPro, BMCRE, or CoinProject, and I think I'm done trying to find it anywhere else. I did get it listed at Wildwinds (wedged in there between RIC 727 and 728), just so it's out there for anyone else to match to theirs.</p><p><br /></p><p>The examples of this coin in RIC and elsewhere tapdance all around this combination, with either a right-facing portrait or a different legend but with the same reverse. Being a newbie, that's why I bought it, even though it's in rough shape and a very low and common denomination. The reverse seems to be extremely common, but I haven't found another example with a left-facing portrait and the same obverse legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1022263[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Vespasian As, 74 AD</p><p><br /></p><p><u>OBVERSE</u>: IMP CAES VESP AVG PM TP COS V CENS, laureate head Left</p><p><u>REVERSE</u>: PAX AVGVST S-C, Pax standing left, leaning on column, holding caduceus and branch[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Numisnewbiest, post: 3866071, member: 99613"]I'm not nearly experienced enough to start picking away at details about this coin, but it's a very common coin - except in this particular combination of portrait/obverse legend/reverse. In this specific combination, it's not listed in RIC, Cohen 308 or 309, CoinArchivesPro, BMCRE, or CoinProject, and I think I'm done trying to find it anywhere else. I did get it listed at Wildwinds (wedged in there between RIC 727 and 728), just so it's out there for anyone else to match to theirs. The examples of this coin in RIC and elsewhere tapdance all around this combination, with either a right-facing portrait or a different legend but with the same reverse. Being a newbie, that's why I bought it, even though it's in rough shape and a very low and common denomination. The reverse seems to be extremely common, but I haven't found another example with a left-facing portrait and the same obverse legend. [ATTACH=full]1022263[/ATTACH] Vespasian As, 74 AD [U]OBVERSE[/U]: IMP CAES VESP AVG PM TP COS V CENS, laureate head Left [U]REVERSE[/U]: PAX AVGVST S-C, Pax standing left, leaning on column, holding caduceus and branch[/QUOTE]
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