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<p>[QUOTE="Parthicus Maximus, post: 7523465, member: 102867"]Great additions Andrew!</p><p>The coins from 85 AD are indeed very interesting. The many changes in legend spellings suggest some kind of experimentation.</p><p><br /></p><p>I find the fourth issue of 85 AD from which you hope to get all the coins particularly interesting. This is the issue in which the Aegis portraits are canceled and the Germania reverse disappears on the silver. It is important to note that the Germania reverse does not appear with the non-aegis portraits from the fourth issue. Since all coins in the second and third issues of 85 AD have aegisses and the Germania reverse also occurs in these issues, I think it is fair to say that the coins with Aegis portraits from the fourth issue were struck first and that halfway through the fourth issue there was a change at the mint. At that moment both aegisses and the Germania reverse dissapear from te silver.</p><p>From then on, only denarii were struck without aegisses, except for special issues (88,95-96).</p><p><br /></p><p>If you have a representative number of coins from the fourth issue for research, you could roughly calculate when the mint stopped minting coins with aegisses. It seems interesting to research, but I don't know how easy it is to have a representative quantity.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Alberto has an unpublished one without aegis in his gallery.</p><p><a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=3597&pos=83" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=3597&pos=83" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=3597&pos=83</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I will also be showing my latest Domitian from 85 AD here. This is a duplicate of Ric 333, which I won in an auction entirely against expectations.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1299263[/ATTACH]</p><p>Domitian 81-96</p><p>AR denarius</p><p>Struck 85 AD (Fourth issue)</p><p>IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P IIII</p><p>Head of Domitian, laureate</p><p>IMP VIIII COS XI CENS POT PP</p><p>Minerva standing right on capital of rostral column, holding spear and shield, owl at foot right (M2)</p><p>3,47g/20mm</p><p>Ric 333(R2)</p><p>Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Parthicus Maximus, post: 7523465, member: 102867"]Great additions Andrew! The coins from 85 AD are indeed very interesting. The many changes in legend spellings suggest some kind of experimentation. I find the fourth issue of 85 AD from which you hope to get all the coins particularly interesting. This is the issue in which the Aegis portraits are canceled and the Germania reverse disappears on the silver. It is important to note that the Germania reverse does not appear with the non-aegis portraits from the fourth issue. Since all coins in the second and third issues of 85 AD have aegisses and the Germania reverse also occurs in these issues, I think it is fair to say that the coins with Aegis portraits from the fourth issue were struck first and that halfway through the fourth issue there was a change at the mint. At that moment both aegisses and the Germania reverse dissapear from te silver. From then on, only denarii were struck without aegisses, except for special issues (88,95-96). If you have a representative number of coins from the fourth issue for research, you could roughly calculate when the mint stopped minting coins with aegisses. It seems interesting to research, but I don't know how easy it is to have a representative quantity. Alberto has an unpublished one without aegis in his gallery. [URL]https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/displayimage.php?album=3597&pos=83[/URL] I will also be showing my latest Domitian from 85 AD here. This is a duplicate of Ric 333, which I won in an auction entirely against expectations. [ATTACH=full]1299263[/ATTACH] Domitian 81-96 AR denarius Struck 85 AD (Fourth issue) IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM P M TR P IIII Head of Domitian, laureate IMP VIIII COS XI CENS POT PP Minerva standing right on capital of rostral column, holding spear and shield, owl at foot right (M2) 3,47g/20mm Ric 333(R2) Ex Gerhard Hirsch Nachfolger[/QUOTE]
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