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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 2668109, member: 85693&quot;]I was recently looking into Vespasian denarii with Vitellius portraits and found a listing on VCoins from Incitatus Coins.&nbsp; The seller had the following note:</p><p><br /></p><p>&quot;This portrait strongly resembles portraits of Vitellius, and may have even simply been a die carved for Vitellius. There were several of these coins struck early on, after Vespasian had won the civil war against Vitellius, but prior to his triumphant arrival at Rome. Celators, having no accurate bust of Vespasian to draw on, simply left the portrait of Vitellius on the coinage, or in some cases, slightl modified it based</p><p>on word-of-mouth description. In this case, the portrait is almost identical to several listed denarii of Vitellius struck in late 69AD.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>I wasn&#039;t sure if it is okay to include links in these posts (I&#039;m new!).&nbsp; The lot is sold but can still be found - I just Google Image searched &quot;vespasian coin portrait vitellius&quot; and it came up.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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