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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2356489, member: 19463&quot;]I have to disagree here.&nbsp; I use the term &#039;Restitution&#039; for coins issued by a later ruler that match a coin issued previously by an earlier authority.&nbsp; I use the term &#039;Consecration&#039; for coins meeting Cucumbor&#039;s definition.&nbsp; To me, most coins shown here are not Restitution issues.&nbsp; JA&#039;s OP certainly is because Titus reissued or restored the type of Caligula consecrating Drusus.&nbsp; Bing showed an Agrippa as of Caligula but recently I saw one of these restored by Domitian which added a Domitian legend on the reverse where the original had none. </p><p><br /></p><p>My holey Augustus is a restoration by Nerva of an original by Tiberius. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]480272[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The best of the Restoration genre are Trajan&#039;s large series of individually rare restored types of the Republic and early emperors.&nbsp; I wish I owned even one to show but they are Triton sale level rarities even in moderate condition.&nbsp; Their reverse legend ends in REST which is where we get the term restored for coins reissued. This one from Triton XIX sold for $90k plus add-ons.&nbsp; Augustus did issue a croc reverse coin (of considerably different style) so I can accept this as a restoration.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another popular and more common marked REST issue is the Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus restoration of the Mark Antony legionary type released on the 200th anniversary of the battle of Actium.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]480273[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>To me, the cool part of this coin is the required expansion of Antony&#039;s obverse which is ANT AVG.&nbsp; Since Aurelius (and Pius before him) was Antoninus which also abbreviates ANT, the name of Antonius had to be spelled out.&nbsp; On the original Antony was titled AVG which then meant Augur but after Augustus made those three letters mean something Antony never claimed to be it was necessary to expand the title on the restored coin to AVGVR.&nbsp; The reverse legend reads ANTONINVS ET VERVS AVG REST.&nbsp; You need one of these, right?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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