I finally got a decent picture of my Vespasian dupondius so that I can show you all. Here are the stats: Struck 71 AD 28 mm Obv: IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS III Radiate head right Rev: S C in field, ROMA in exergue Roma seated left on cuirass, holding wreath and parazonium RIC 476 I hope you guys like it! :hail:
Thanks for your comments everyone. Yes, I thought the portrait was particularly nice for a coin in my price range.
Show Wear from use in 71AD Soda Machine Really think that is a nice coin. Thanks for sharing the pics. When I see pictures of coins like that, I just have to wonder some of the places in history it may have been. Was it on a battle field or maybe a mom bought 20 candles, a jar of honey and some potatoes with it. But after looking at the pictures for a while I wondered how it was struck. Does anyone know of articles or information on how these were made? Handheld die and big blacksmith hammer?:secret:
Yes, that is the short of it. Maybe someone else will have a link to an article describing the process.
heres some http://www-scf.usc.edu/~ciccone/html/production.htm http://www.archaeologystudent.com/coinarch/
