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<p>[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 4966963, member: 91461"]It's true! On this single date in 51 CE, 9 months after some poor woman lay with Vespasian aaand after fetus Domitian devours his twin in utero, Damnitian, he is born.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193822[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193813[/ATTACH]</p><p>Domitian</p><p>81-96 CE. Denarius, 3.44g. (h). Rome, 81 AD. Obv: IMP CAES DOMITIANVS AVG P M Head laureate right. Rx: TR P COS VII - DES VIII P P Wreath on curule chair, the legs of which terminate in lions' paws. RIC 48 (C ). BM 18. Paris 17. Cohen 570 (2 Fr.). Not a common coin: just five specimens in Reka Devnia hoard. Good VF</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193816[/ATTACH]</p><p>Domitian, as Caesar,</p><p>80 ADSilver Denarius, Rome Mint, 19mm, 3.1 gramsObverse: CAESAR DIVI F DOMITIANVS COS VII, Laureate head of Domitian right.Reverse: PRINCEPS IVVENTVTIS, Helmet on throne.RIC51. Ex: Timeline</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193818[/ATTACH]</p><p>Domitian</p><p>MACEDON, Koinon of Macedon. . AD 81-96. Æ (23mm, 7.55 g, 3h). Beroea mint. Laureate head right / Macedonian shield. RPC II 336; Varbanov 3024.</p><p><br /></p><p>18 years later, to the day, in 69<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /><img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie60" alt=":kiss:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />CE, his pop's, Vespasian defeats Vitellius at the Second Battle of Bedriacum's hot dog eating contest to earn the purple.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193823[/ATTACH]</p><p>(LOVE watching Bill Murray cheer on the young emperor to be)</p><p>*My latest brand new, to me, Vespy that I've not shared until this very special thread:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193836[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193821[/ATTACH]</p><p>Vespasian</p><p>MAKEDON. Koinon . ( 69 - 79 AD). Ae. Obv: Laureate head left . ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤ [ΩΡ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ] ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΣ. Rev: ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ. Makedonian Shield. RPC 333. SNG COP. 1336. Rare. Condition: Extremely Fine. Weight: 8.82 g. Diameter: 23 mm. Purchased from: Papillon</p><p><br /></p><p>And then one decade later... to the day, 79 CE, Titus eats to much Spanish chili and explodes! Killing 16,000 and then blaming it on a local mountain named Vesuvius!</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193824[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193815[/ATTACH]</p><p>TITUS, 79-81 CE</p><p> AR Denarius (3.29 gm) of</p><p>Rome, as Caesar, 76 AD.</p><p>Laureate head right / Eagle</p><p>on cippus. RSC.59a.</p><p>RIC.191a. RIC2.861.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1193819[/ATTACH]</p><p>Pseudo-autonomous issue, 1st century AD. (Bronze, 17 mm, 4.97 g), Beroia. Macedonian shield. Rev. MΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ Nike standing to left on globe, holding wreath with the extended right hand and palm branch with the left. SNG Cop. 1331. SNG ANS.-. RPC -. Unusual and rare; a very interesting exampleA very interesting and scarce emission of the Macedonian Koinon</p><p>MACEDON. Koinon of Macedon. Ex: Munzzentrum</p><p><br /></p><p>All these events, or something like them, happened on this day just under a couple millennia ago<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie85" alt=":smuggrin:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> please post all those Flavian beauties and stories, or stories like them, that we all love to tell and hear about the Flavian fam![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Ryro, post: 4966963, member: 91461"]It's true! On this single date in 51 CE, 9 months after some poor woman lay with Vespasian aaand after fetus Domitian devours his twin in utero, Damnitian, he is born. [ATTACH=full]1193822[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1193813[/ATTACH] Domitian 81-96 CE. Denarius, 3.44g. (h). Rome, 81 AD. Obv: IMP CAES DOMITIANVS AVG P M Head laureate right. Rx: TR P COS VII - DES VIII P P Wreath on curule chair, the legs of which terminate in lions' paws. RIC 48 (C ). BM 18. Paris 17. Cohen 570 (2 Fr.). Not a common coin: just five specimens in Reka Devnia hoard. Good VF [ATTACH=full]1193816[/ATTACH] Domitian, as Caesar, 80 ADSilver Denarius, Rome Mint, 19mm, 3.1 gramsObverse: CAESAR DIVI F DOMITIANVS COS VII, Laureate head of Domitian right.Reverse: PRINCEPS IVVENTVTIS, Helmet on throne.RIC51. Ex: Timeline [ATTACH=full]1193818[/ATTACH] Domitian MACEDON, Koinon of Macedon. . AD 81-96. Æ (23mm, 7.55 g, 3h). Beroea mint. Laureate head right / Macedonian shield. RPC II 336; Varbanov 3024. 18 years later, to the day, in 69;):kiss:CE, his pop's, Vespasian defeats Vitellius at the Second Battle of Bedriacum's hot dog eating contest to earn the purple. [ATTACH=full]1193823[/ATTACH] (LOVE watching Bill Murray cheer on the young emperor to be) *My latest brand new, to me, Vespy that I've not shared until this very special thread: [ATTACH=full]1193836[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1193821[/ATTACH] Vespasian MAKEDON. Koinon . ( 69 - 79 AD). Ae. Obv: Laureate head left . ΑΥΤΟΚΡΑΤ [ΩΡ ΚΑΙΣΑΡ] ΟΥΕΣΠΑΣΙΑΝΟΣ. Rev: ΚΟΙΝΟΝ ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ. Makedonian Shield. RPC 333. SNG COP. 1336. Rare. Condition: Extremely Fine. Weight: 8.82 g. Diameter: 23 mm. Purchased from: Papillon And then one decade later... to the day, 79 CE, Titus eats to much Spanish chili and explodes! Killing 16,000 and then blaming it on a local mountain named Vesuvius! [ATTACH=full]1193824[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1193815[/ATTACH] TITUS, 79-81 CE AR Denarius (3.29 gm) of Rome, as Caesar, 76 AD. Laureate head right / Eagle on cippus. RSC.59a. RIC.191a. RIC2.861. [ATTACH=full]1193819[/ATTACH] Pseudo-autonomous issue, 1st century AD. (Bronze, 17 mm, 4.97 g), Beroia. Macedonian shield. Rev. MΑΚΕΔΟΝΩΝ Nike standing to left on globe, holding wreath with the extended right hand and palm branch with the left. SNG Cop. 1331. SNG ANS.-. RPC -. Unusual and rare; a very interesting exampleA very interesting and scarce emission of the Macedonian Koinon MACEDON. Koinon of Macedon. Ex: Munzzentrum All these events, or something like them, happened on this day just under a couple millennia ago:smuggrin: please post all those Flavian beauties and stories, or stories like them, that we all love to tell and hear about the Flavian fam![/QUOTE]
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