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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 26350713, member: 135271&quot;]Not a rare coin, but a nice problem-free AE as of Titus as Augustus, with a good portrait:</p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center"><i>[ATTACH=full]1682028[/ATTACH] </i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>TITUS, AD 79-81</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>AE As (28.1mm, 10.91g, 7h)</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Struck AD 80-81. Rome mint</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Obverse: IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P COS VIII, laureate head of Titus left</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Reverse: AEQVITAS AVGVST, Aequitas, draped, standing left, holding scales in right hand and rod in left; S C across fields</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>References: RIC II.1 215; RCV – ; ERIC II 360</i></p> <p style="text-align: center"><i>Dark patina, excellent centering and strike. Some deposits. A stately portrait of Titus as Augustus. Aequitas was the Roman personification of equality, fairness, and justice, and is often depicted on Imperial coinage holding a balance scale.</i></p><p>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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