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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;randygeki, post: 577225, member: 13719&quot;]here what i&nbsp; go from forum </p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><i>&quot;</i><i>Looks like Vespasian, first issue of 71 with full name </i><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=vespasianvs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=vespasianvs" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0066cc"><i>VESPASIANVS</i></span></a><i>:</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>IMP CAESAR </i><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=vespasianvs" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=vespasianvs" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0066cc"><i>VESPASIANVS</i></span></a><i> AVG P M T P P P </i><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=cos iii" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=cos iii" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0066cc"><i>COS III</i></span></a><i>, bust laureate r. with </i><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aegis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aegis" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0066cc"><i>aegis</i></span></a><i> on shoulder and resting on globe</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>FIDES EXERCITVVM S C, clasped hands before </i><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=legionary eagle" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=legionary eagle" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0066cc"><i>legionary eagle</i></span></a><i> on prow.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The </i><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=obverse" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=obverse" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0066cc"><i>obverse</i></span></a><i> die is A23 in Colin Kraay&#039;s unpublished Oxford dissertation, the rev. die P75.&nbsp; Kraay didn&#039;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.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>These are </i><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=rare" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=rare" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0066cc"><i>rare</i></span></a><i> types: only one other obv. die of the issue shows this combination of </i><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aegis" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/numiswiki/view.asp?key=aegis" rel="nofollow"><span style="color: #0066cc"><i>aegis</i></span></a><i> 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&#039;s name abbreviated VESPASIAN (no -VS).</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>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!&nbsp; There are the same two dies on well preserved specimens in other die combinations.&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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