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Message:: [QUOTE="Terence Cheesman, post: 8220678, member: 86498"]I cannot say that this auction win was recent. I actually bid on and won the coin December 15 2021. As i knew that I would not get the coin until January 2022 I counted it as my first purchase of 2022. Thus since then I have won something like 6 coins during the month of January. So what makes this coin special? I just got it yesterday some 42 days after the coin was shipped. However as much as I would like to put the blame on the Spanish Post Office, the real culprit this time was Canada Post. Somebody forgot to leave a delivery notice in my mailbox and the coin was sitting in the post office for some weeks literally only three blocks from where I live. Oh well Denarius of Vespasian Tarraco Mint 69-70 AD Obv Head left laureate. Rv. Libertas standing left holding pileus and scepter.  RIC 1339 3.10 grms 18 mm [ATTACH=full]1443705[/ATTACH]One of my ongoing projects was to acquire a number denarii of Vespasian struck at mints outside of Rome. Over the years I had purchased a number of these coins but up to now an example from the mint of Tarraco  eluded me. So I was pleased to get this one. However the wait did prove annoying. Despite being the first coin of 2022 currently it is my most recent auction acquisition.[/QUOTE]