Featured Restoration coinage of Titus, Domitian & Nerva

Thank you for that insightful post Blake. I am looking forward to your posting of that Nerva Augustus Restoration Sestertius - I haven’t seen many of those.

 

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I had not thought about that, Blake. When I was trying to build a Julio-Claudian Sestertius portrait sub-collection many years ago it took what seemed forever to acquire an Augustus portrait Sestertius. If I had been familiar with this Restoration coinage back then (I wasn’t) I could have probably found a Nerva Restoration sestertius (which bears a really nice Augustus portrait) much easier.

 

It is bizarre that there were a number of Augustus restoration issues for sale in a short time frame - these are not common either but certainly less money

 

Well that was conjecture on my part. I am not so sure there were that many Restoration issues for sale at that time - could have been there were actually less than “regular” Augustus issues. BTW there is a pretty nice Nerva Restoration Augustus Sestertius - with a very nice portrait - presently listed on Vcoins by a reliable and well respected Dealer at $1475 (plus shipping).

And I just noticed a second one at over $3000 - Not well listed in my opinion: “Coin, Divus Augustus, Sestertius, 98 AD, Rome, Bronze, RIC:136”.

 

Only have a few under Titus and Nerva shared before in an older thread:

Augustus restitution issue under Titus Vespasianus, Æ Dupondius
Rome, 80-81 AD.
27 mm, 12.618 g;

RIC II (Part 1, 2nd edition) Titus 446; Komnick group II, 37.0; BMC.265-266; Sear 2580; Cohen 557;

Ob.: DIVVS AVGVSTVS PATER radiate head left, star above
Rev.: IMP T VESP AVG REST Victory, draped, advancing left, carrying in right hand shield inscribed S P Q R; S-C across fields

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Augustus - Restitution issue under Nerva, Æ Dupondius
Rome, 97 - 98 AD
26.25 x 27 mm, 10.843 g

RIC II Nerva 131; Sear 3079; BMCRE 154, Cohen 568;
Ob.: DIVVS AVGVSTVS radiate head of Augustus r.
Rev.: IMP NERVA CAES AVG REST Globe with rudder in front, S C

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Livia restitution issue under Titus Vespasianus, Æ Dupondius
Rome, 80 - 81 AD
27 mm, 10.992 g

RIC II 405 (Titus); Cohen 10 (Livia); BMC 290;

Ob.: IVSTITIA bust of Livia as Justitia, draped, right, wearing stephane
Rev.: IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M / TR P P P COS VIII RESTITV in two concentric cycles around SC

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Augustus - Restitution issue under Nerva, Æ Sestertius
At http://numismatics.org mint is Asia Minor, this has been changed to Rome (see Holger Komnick, "Die Restitutionsmünzen der frühen Kaiserzeit", Berlin 2002)

Rome, 97 - 98 AD
33 x 34 mm, 24.87 g

RIC II (Nerva) 136; RCV 3076; BMCRE 149 (Nerva); Komnick 4.0 (Nerva); Cohen 570;
Ob.: DIVVS AVGVSTVS laureate head of Augustus right, with features of Nerva
Rev.: IMP NERVA CAESAR AVGVSTVS REST around large S C

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Thank you for posting those @cmezner.