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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 3558519, member: 87404&quot;]One of my favorite coin categories! Funny, I&#039;ve actually cleaned a couple, feeling like I saved them in some way.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20181230_082436517.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Divus Augustus, Died 14 AD</b></p><p><b>AE As, Restoration Issue,</b></p><p><b>Struck under Titus 80-81 AD, Rome Mint</b></p><p><b>Obverse</b>: DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER, radiate head left.</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: IMP T VESP – AVG REST, Victory alighting left, holding shield inscribed SP/QR, S-C across fields.</p><p><b>References</b>: RIC Titus 446</p><p><br /></p><p><i>I forgot to take official &quot;before&quot; images (the obverse legend and top of his head were completely covered with like hardened ash or something really fine and black), but below are prior to more detailed cleaning, especially the reverse:</i></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20180817_123442388.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> <img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20180817_124020546.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>-----</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20181023_220958886.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Divus Augustus, Ruled 27 BC-14 AD</b></p><p><b>AE As, Struck by Tiberius 34-37 AD, Rome mint</b></p><p><b>Obverse</b>: DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER: Head of Augustus, radiate, left.</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: Eagle standing, front, on globe, with open wings, head turned right, S-C across fields.</p><p><b>References</b>: RIC I 82</p><p>Size: 27mm, 10.7g</p><p><br /></p><p><i>This one was covered in a tar-like substance and had to work hard, but carefully to get it off nicely. (not a before image, just tilted to see the detail) </i></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20181023_231901161.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>-----</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/collagemaker_20181118_214923160.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Divus Augustus, Ruled, 27 BC-14 AD</b></p><p><b>AE As, Struck by Tiberius 34-37 AD, Rome mint</b></p><p><b>Obverse</b>: DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER: Head of Augustus, radiate, left.</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: Ornate winged thunderbolt upright, S-C across fields.</p><p><b>References</b>: RIC I 83</p><p><b>Size</b>: 25mm, 8.0g</p><p><br /></p><p>-----</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://iomegacollectionhome.files.wordpress.com/2019/04/pjimage-9-1.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><b>Divus Augustus, Restoration issue by Titus</b></p><p><b>AE27 As, Rome Mint, Struck 80-81 AD</b></p><p><b>Obverse</b>: DIVVS AVGVS-TVS PATER, Radiate head of Augustus left; above, a star.</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: IMP T CAES AVG RESTITVIT, Eagle perched facing on globe, head right, wings spread, S-C in field.</p><p><b>References</b>: RCV I 2584, RIC II 198/462, Cohen 551, Komnick 34.0</p><p><b>Size</b>: 27mm, 9.98g</p><p><br /></p><p>-----</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]945993[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Divus Augustus, Restoration issue by Tiberius </b></p><p><b>AE As, Rome Mint, Struck 22-30 AD</b></p><p><b>Obverse</b>: DIVVS•AVGVSTVS•PATER; Head of Divus Augustus, radiate, left.</p><p><b>Reverse</b>: PROVIDENT; Ornate altar enclosure of the Ara Providentiae Augusti with double paneled door right, PROVIDENT below altar, S-C across field.</p><p><b>References</b>: RIC I (Tiberius) 81, Sear 1789, BMCRE 146 (Tiberius), Cohen 228.</p><p><br /></p><p><i>This one I got a few weeks ago with some BD that needed treatment and TLC. Below was the before... </i></p><p>[ATTACH=full]945991[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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