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Message:: [QUOTE="Blake Davis, post: 26696265, member: 91820"]You are correct about Titus - I have been looking for a Titus from later in his reign for years but everything offered is too expensive for what are pretty worn coins - unless you want to four figures.  But elsewhere on this site I posted a photograph of a Titus struck in Thrace I recently won in a Leu auction that turned out to be one of those bids that you make, NEVER expect to win - and the coin turned out to have beautiful patina, a huge 29 gram flan, and better than the photograph.  For the most part this only happens with bronzes - silver is 'what you see is what you get." Bronze is HARD to photograph - been doing it for 26 years and still have problems.  I foolishly did not save the photograph of the reverse of this coin. The reverse is also Mars walking right as with the other one I have which is why I did not make a serious bid.  But I won it anyway. I think this is COS VIII - I have to look up the date.  Thracian mint but the same nose on Titus as the Rome mint and for me the  nose says Titus along with the "T" in the inscription.  Same celators? Or copied from coins - I am convinced that is what the provincial celators got their models from - not statuary but coins.  [ATTACH=full]1703535[/ATTACH] The patina is nicer than on the photograph. What makes this Thracian?[/QUOTE]