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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nemo, post: 3598195, member: 58462&quot;]I have wanted a Vespasian denarius with a Vespasian countermark for quite a while. </p><p>It&#039;s an interesting error when a coin of Vespasian is unnecessarily stamped as valid currency by his own mint.&nbsp; When the countermark happens to be on an extremely rare denarius, all the better.&nbsp; The extra treat was the fact that the mint workers did this not once, but on each side of the coin! Careless or just messing around?&nbsp; Who knows but it was a treat to get this in hand. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]962593[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><b>Vespasian / Shield Within Wreath RIC 1393</b></p><p>69-79 AD, Ephesus, c. 69-70 AD, Denarius, 2.80g.&nbsp; </p><p>O: IMP CAES - VESPAS AVG Head laureate r.; on neck rectangular countermark IMP VES with IMP and VE ligate (Howgego-839). </p><p>R: AVG on round shield within oak wreath; rectangular countermark IMP VES with IMP and VE ligate. </p><p><br /></p><p>Extremely rare, apparently the second recorded specimen, the first having appeared in Schenk-Behrens 76, 26 Nov. 1998, lot 186, as reported but not illustrated by RIC-1393. </p><p><br /></p><p>The attribution of this reverse type to Ephesus, suggested by the use on later marked coins of that mint of a simplified version of the same type, AVG within oak wreath but without the shield, is confirmed by the countermark of Vespasian on this specimen, since the few Flavian denarii known to have been marked with that countermark are all coins of the Ephesus mint.</p><p><br /></p><p>Let&#039;s see your mint errors![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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