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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;cmezner, post: 3066400, member: 87809&quot;]Beautiful Augustus head and from what I have read, very rare! Great acquisition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Found the following description, which I think is interesting, just sharing<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><blockquote><p>The “restoration” or recoining of the types had the general purpose of linking the reign of Nerva to that of Augustus. Succeeding to the throne by violence, Nerva felt the need to attach himself to the great imperial tradition and naturally went back from the Flavians to Augustus himself. (.&nbsp; .) The formula “restituit” is here used loosely: not a single type is “restored” exactly as originally struck. For some like the sestertii with the portrait of Divus Augustus, we cannot point to any coin that can be regarded as a model. What is restored is essentially the memory, rather than the coins, of the founder of the Empire.&quot; (H. Mattingly, BMC III, S. L).</p></blockquote><p>and also:</p><p>at <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.ner.136" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.ner.136" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2.ner.136</a> mint is Asia Minor, this has been changed to Rome (Holger Komnick, &quot;Die Restitutionsmünzen der frühen Kaiserzeit&quot;, Berlin 2002)[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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