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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 7769251, member: 89514&quot;]As [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] probably told you, your coin seems to be a variant of RIC Titus 353.</p><p><br /></p><p>That coin has the same obv. legend, CAES DIVI VESP F DOMITIAN COS VII, and the same Securitas seated left reverse type, assuming that on RIC 353 Securitas is supporting her head with her left hand, as on your coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Three differences, however. On your coin the portrait faces left, not right as on RIC 353; your rev. legend is SECVRIT AVGVST S C, not SECVRITAS AVGVST S C&nbsp; as on the RIC coin; and your coin omits the altar at Securitas&#039; feet, whereas RIC 353 is said to show an altar there.</p><p><br /></p><p>A possible fourth difference: maybe RIC 353 shows Securitas not supporting her head with her left hand as on your coin, but rather resting her left elbow on her throne, a variant of the type that is mentioned in RIC p. 211, note 33, and illustrated by RIC pl. 99, 210-211.</p><p><br /></p><p>One would like to be able to confirm these reported differences from a photo of RIC 353; but unfortunately RIC doesn&#039;t either provide a picture of this variant, reported to be represented by coins in Copenhagen and Rome, or refer to a picture already published elsewhere.</p><p><br /></p><p>Despite the hundreds and hundreds of new Flavian coins that the revised RIC reports from a large number of museum or private collections and from printed or online sources, unpublished variants still turn up with some frequency, because of the many obverse legends and bust types on the one hand, and the many reverse types, legends, and variants of the types and legends on the other hand, which could be coupled with one another in seeming innumerable combinations.</p><p><br /></p><p>If [USER=74968]@Orfew[/USER] or [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] hasn&#039;t already done so, we can report your coin to Ian Carradice, one of the RIC authors, who is collecting material for a supplement to the Flavian volume[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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