One letter

Discussion in 'World Coins' started by randygeki, Apr 26, 2009.

  1. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    never new how one letter could be so important on a coin till now.

    cant tell if its Vespasian or Titus :eek:


    cant tell if the obv has a T in the begining or not.

    I can see (?) IMP CAESAR VESPASIONVS AVG P M---

    its a sestertius, looks like clasped hand on the rev.
     

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  3. Ardatirion

    Ardatirion Où est mon poisson

    I was wondering about this coin when you uploaded it to your gallery. The portrait style doesn't seem to fit, it seems a later style than Vespasian. Coinarchives didn't turn up any results for "titus sestertius clasped hands" or "vespasian sestertius clasped hands". Post it on the Forvm Identification Board.
     
  4. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    I 'll head over there now, thanks, not certain about it being clasped hands but was my best guess
     
  5. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    heres a better pics I just got too
     

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  6. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    here what i go from forum

    "Looks like Vespasian, first issue of 71 with full name VESPASIANVS:

    IMP CAESAR
    VESPASIANVS AVG P M T P P P COS III, bust laureate r. with aegis on shoulder and resting on globe

    FIDES EXERCITVVM S C, clasped hands before
    legionary eagle on prow.

    The
    obverse die is A23 in Colin Kraay's unpublished Oxford dissertation, the rev. die P75. Kraay didn't know this die combination, but it is recorded by RIC 70 from a single specimen in the Termopolio Hoard from Pompeii, published in 1997.

    These are
    rare types: only one other obv. die of the issue shows this combination of aegis and globe for the bust, and this is the only rev. die of the FIDES EXERCITVVM type used in the issue, though a second such die was used later in the year with Vespasian's name abbreviated VESPASIAN (no -VS).

    To see what your dies looked like before the corrosion, see RIC pl. 18, 117 and pl. 16, 71 for the obv. and rev. respectively! There are the same two dies on well preserved specimens in other die combinations."
     
  7. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    cant find it online :eek:
     
  8. randygeki

    randygeki Coin Collector

    this one seems pretty elusive, cant find any examples of it.
     
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