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Message:: [QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 7608171, member: 82616"]When this little beauty was listed on Vcoins last week I snapped it up right away. I love the idea of collecting coins of famous Romans without having to leave the Flavian era. [ATTACH=full]1309828[/ATTACH]Agrippa, Restored by Titus Æ As, 9.95gRome mint, 80 -81 ADObv: M AGRIPPA L F COS III; Head of Agrippa with rostral crown, l.Rev: IMP T VESP AVG REST; S C in field; Neptune stg. l., with dolphin and trident RIC 470 (C2). BMC 281. BNC 289.Acquired from Ken Dorney, May 2021. Titus struck an extensive restoration series of bronze coins of Flavian approved past emperors and imperial family members which reproduced the original coins in their entirety. While this veneration of past coinages was not a new idea (Vespasian copied past types on many reverses for the precious metal issues) it was quite an innovation to copy both the obverse and reverse of these past coinages. To do so likely had a dual purpose - one, to recoin types that were being recalled or falling out of circulation and to keep their memory alive, and secondly to link the Flavian house with those past revered personages. This As struck by Titus for M. Agrippa, faithfully copies both obverse and reverse of a famous type originally struck by Tiberius and Caligula. Neptune was a most appropriate reverse for Augustus's naval commander at the Battle of Actium. Please post your coins of M. Agrippa! [/QUOTE]