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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 3697399, member: 82616&quot;]Imagine the heart sinking feeling I felt when I went to pick-up my latest coin purchase at my PO box and saw this -</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]990971[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Luckily the coin was still inside. Oddly enough, the inner envelope containing the coin was opened but the cardboard it was embedded in was not.</p><p><br /></p><p>At any rate, I&#039;m glad she made it through the customs gauntlet!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]990967[/ATTACH]<b>Domitian</b></p><p>Æ As, 10.61g</p><p>Rome mint, 90-91 AD</p><p>RIC 709 (C2). BMC 452. BNF 482.</p><p>Obv: IMP CAES DOMIT AVG GERM COS XV CENS PER P P; Head of Domitian, laureate, bearded, r.</p><p>Rev: VIRTVTI AVGVSTI; S C in field; Virtus stg. r., foot on helmet, with spear and parazonium</p><p>Acquired from Prafectus Coins, August 2019.</p><p><br /></p><p>The Virtus type was struck repeatedly on Domitian&#039;s middle bronze from 84 onwards. I. Carradice in his 1983 monograph on Domitian&#039;s coinage says the following concerning the type - &#039;Virtus is a military type, symbolic of the courage of Domitian and the mutual devotion between the army and emperor.&#039; Virtus first appears on the coinage in the flurry of Germania Capta types that were struck soon after Domitian&#039;s German triumph. She is depicted in traditional Amazon attire.</p><p><br /></p><p>Feel free to post your Virtus types or near misses![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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