We have all seen the Iovis Custos type of denarius for Vespasian and Titus. However, this one is a bit different. You probably all know by now that I like minor variations. this is one of those. The Iovis Custos type for Titus is a common coin with the obverse legend T CAESAR IMP VESPASIANUS. However this coin has the obverse legend T CAESAR IMP VESPASIAN. This variation makes the coin quite rare. As for the coin it is worn but still has some pleasing detail. Even given that I will be pleased to add this one to my collection. Please post your coins of Titus or any related coins of Vespasian. Acsearch=4 OCRE=1 CNG=0 Titus AR Denarius.Under Vespasian 76 CE (first issue) 3.14 g Obv:Leaureate head right, T CAESAR IMP VESPASIAN Rev:Jupiter standing facing with patera over altar, IOVIS CUSTOS RIC 863 (R2)
Titus tet of Alexandria... Titus, A.D. 79-81 Billon Tetradrachm, 25mm, 9.3 grams, 12h EGYPT, Alexandria. Year 3 = A.D. 81 Obverse: AVTOK TITOY KAIE OVEEPAEIANOY EEB; Laureate head right. Reverse: OMO-NOIA; Homonoia seated left, holding out branch, LT in lower left field. Reference: RPC 2467; Dattari 423 From the @Mat Collection A little more about Homonoia: "Homonoia was extended under Roman rule in the highly urbanized East as a symbolic mechanism for dealing with intra-city tensions and for linking the sometimes intensely individual eastern city-states. A temple of Homonoia at Aphrodisias in Caria appears as the setting for the wedding of Callirhoe and Dionysios in the first-century CE romance Chaereas and Callirhoe; the temple is objectified in coinage of Aphrodisias that shows the cult statue of Aphrodite of Aphrodisias with those of other cities, under the legend homonoia: "Deities in the coin issues served as symbols that mediated the power within regional alliances, bolstered the prestige of the divine realm in human activity and provided the glue that bound together the political and the cosmic spheres." In the first century CE, the Greek rhetorician Dio Chrysostom sought in one of his Discourses to establish homonoia between two cities that each claimed the sobriquet "first city", Nicaea and Nicopolis."
Nice pick up, worn but still pleasing portrait of Titus. Titus, 79 AD, denarius Rome 3.41gm, radiate figure on rostral column, S2509, RIC 10, RSC 272,
I happen to have one too, David pointed out to me that it was rare (I hadn't yet researched it). Looks like are these now to be found disproportionately in Canada.
