Odd Vespasian Denarius - Calling Vespasian70

Wow Doug => your double-oxen-example is now at the pinnacle of my *want list* (very cool coin)

 

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My Vespasian AR Denarius with inverted legend:

This cool commemorative coin was struck by Titus after Vespasian’s death. It is from the Rome mint ~A.D. 80-81. (Sorry to post it so often reently).

 

MY inverted legends.

 

Very nice coins, but is the color off?

 

Excellent assortment of coins, dlhill. I may be a little envious of your Tiberius.

 

Bing,
It's been about 5 or 6 years sence I took these pics. They very well could be off. My eyes are not the best anymore. The titus does look a little blue. Will pull it out one day and check it out.
Doug Hill

 

Doug, regardless if the color is off, the coins are very nice. Great detail. I would take any one of the three. Or better yet, all three.

 

Well.... if we're showing tribute pennies. I decided to reshoot mine a few days ago.

I cut the file size in half for everyone living in 2002. Who needs a "PONTIF" when you have a "MAXIM" like that?

 

+1 for decorated chair legs.

 

The question to me is why Vespasian returned to the normal inverted (we used to call it 'base out') legends for some but not all of his coins. It had been normal for Lugdunum silver of Augustus and Tiberius but I'm not aware of a base out for Nero and the short term emperors that followed him. For that matter, why is it harder to find inverted bronzes of either period compared to silver? This one is a Lugdunum mint as of Tiberius.

Is there a code here? Does our current (RIC) system identify mints correctly? What are the latest coins done that way? My last is this Domitian (late 81 AD after Titus died):


I have to assume that Domitian stopped it cold when he changed everything to make Rome 'his'. Has any of our past scholars commented on why the style was used and ended?