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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Clavdivs, post: 3356353, member: 93702&quot;]I received a copy of RIC volume II today... so I fully admit I am still working out how to use it effectively. So apologies if I am missing something really obvious but anyway.....</p><p>First coin I pick up to &quot;work&quot; with the book is this modest (but awesome!) sestertius of Vespasian:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]888841[/ATTACH]</p><p>The attribution that came with the coin is:</p><p>AE Sestertius, Rome Mint, 32mm, 22.53 grams</p><p>Obverse: IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M TR P P P COS VII, Laureate head of Vespasian left.</p><p>Reverse: PAX AVGVSTI S C, Pax standing left holding branch and cornucopia.</p><p>RIC881</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Yet in the book the highest RIC# under Vespasian is RIC 818.</p><p>Is there a supplement I am missing or am I off my rocker? <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Also a couple of odd tidbits:</p><p>-The RIC881 shown on Wildwinds is a &quot;right&quot; facing portrait and a Spes reverse?</p><p>-The legends are obviously not full on my coin - but there is enough to see that they are &quot;inward legends&quot; on both obverse and reverse.. the book states this occurred on coins struck from AD69-73 for Vespasian. Yet COSVII (as in the coin&#039;s supplied attribution) = AD76 for Vespasian (however that part of the legend is not visible on my coin to confirm.)</p><p><br /></p><p>I checked ACSearch and there is a coin attributed as RIC 818 that has a left facing portrait/Pax but does not mention the legend information.</p><p><br /></p><p>**Also I am not stating that left facing portraits are rare (I do not have enough experience to state that) however out of the 200 or so examples from ACSearch of Vespasian Sestertius with a Pax reverse only 2 showed up with left facing portraits. Wildwinds also shows an extremely low percentage of coins of Vespasian with a left portrait (like 5%?).. but perhaps those have survived in large numbers? Are the left facing portraits rare?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway - looking for some help with this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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