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<p>[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 25912327, member: 135271"]Here is a fun one: a sestertius of Vespasian which was misidentified by the dealer as a COS III issue when it is actually COS VI (as you can see in the obverse legend.) This would place the date of minting not at AD 71, but AD 75 - a considerably rare year for sestertii. This coin type is rated R2 by RIC and is a double die match to the RIC plate coin. It's also a double die match to the only other specimen I could find online, that being a coin from the Curtis L. Clay collection recently sold by Harlan J. Berk.</p><p><br /></p><p>The coin itself isn't <i>quite</i> MS, but come on, it's nearly two thousand years old. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><i>[ATTACH=full]1650081[/ATTACH] </i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>VESPASIAN, AD 69-79</i></p><p><i><p style="text-align: center"><i>AE Sestertius (33.21mm, 23.59g, 6h)</i></p></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><i><i>Struck AD 75. Rome mint</i></p></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><i><i>Obverse: IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS VI, laureate head of Vespasian right</i></p></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><i><i>Reverse: ROMA, Roma standing left, holding vertical spear in left hand and Victory in right; S C across fields</i></p></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><i><i>References: RIC II 815 (R2, same dies), RCV - ; ERIC II - .</i></p><p></i></p><p style="text-align: center"><i>Worn with brassy highlights. This coin is one of only a handful of sestertius types that were struck for Vespasian in his sixth consular year (AD 75.) All of them are very rare; RIC II.1, published in 2007, records just eight different specimens from five types. This coin shares the same dies as the RIC plate coin (Vienna) and is also a double die match to HJB BBS 229, lot 513 (ex Curtis L. Clay Coll.), the only other specimen I could find outside of the three cited by RIC.</i></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="The Meat man, post: 25912327, member: 135271"]Here is a fun one: a sestertius of Vespasian which was misidentified by the dealer as a COS III issue when it is actually COS VI (as you can see in the obverse legend.) This would place the date of minting not at AD 71, but AD 75 - a considerably rare year for sestertii. This coin type is rated R2 by RIC and is a double die match to the RIC plate coin. It's also a double die match to the only other specimen I could find online, that being a coin from the Curtis L. Clay collection recently sold by Harlan J. Berk. The coin itself isn't [I]quite[/I] MS, but come on, it's nearly two thousand years old. ;) [CENTER][I][ATTACH=full]1650081[/ATTACH] VESPASIAN, AD 69-79[/I][/CENTER] [I][CENTER][I]AE Sestertius (33.21mm, 23.59g, 6h) Struck AD 75. Rome mint Obverse: IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS VI, laureate head of Vespasian right Reverse: ROMA, Roma standing left, holding vertical spear in left hand and Victory in right; S C across fields References: RIC II 815 (R2, same dies), RCV - ; ERIC II - .[/I][/CENTER][/I] [CENTER][I]Worn with brassy highlights. This coin is one of only a handful of sestertius types that were struck for Vespasian in his sixth consular year (AD 75.) All of them are very rare; RIC II.1, published in 2007, records just eight different specimens from five types. This coin shares the same dies as the RIC plate coin (Vienna) and is also a double die match to HJB BBS 229, lot 513 (ex Curtis L. Clay Coll.), the only other specimen I could find outside of the three cited by RIC.[/I][/CENTER][/QUOTE]
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