Featured The Restoration/Restitution coinage of Titus

Another restored Claudius sestertius from the same dies as your acsearch link: RPC II 522, in Oxford, ex my collection, ex Vecchi II, 1984, lot 645.

 

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Very nice @singig - thank you for posting the pic and information. This coin was originally minted by Titus with the portrait of Claudius facing right and cataloged by Mattingly in BMCRE (British Museum Coins Of The Roman Empire, volume II, Claudius No. 287 (Plate 56.1). (My coin)

It was later issued by Titus with the portrait of Claudius facing left and cataloged by Mattingly in BMCRE (British Museum Coins Of The Roman Empire, volume II, Claudius No. 288 (Plate 56.3). (Your coin).

 

Thanks for the information !! , I found the url for the specimen you indicated. The coin cannot have 30 mm diameter, at least 35 mm, is from the same obverse die as mine and is struck on a large flan.
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/522
I saw that they added a correction note at the end : Corr: Given to 'Flavian mint in Thrace' in RPC II, but attributed to Rome in RIC II (2nd ed.).Corrected coin-type (post publication)

 

Thanks @jamesicus ! , I took out form the book the information you indicated:
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.69978/page/n399/mode/2up?q=clavdivs

 

I would agree with RPC's original attribution of the Claudius sestertii from this obv. die: probably provincial mint in Thrace, not Rome. It is a shame that the new edition of RIC II made little effort to solve this rather difficult problem and instead merely attributed most of the apparently Thracian bronzes to Rome not Thrace.

 

There are so many REST types (Titus or Domitian) in the same situation, declared Trace mint by RPC and changed to Rome mint by RIC. Very confusing , some examples:

https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/512
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/513
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/514
https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/2/536

 

CLAUDIUS SESTERTIUS, TITUS RESTORATION ISSUE, 80-81 AD
(34.5mm, 23.12 gm)

BMCRE Volume II, Rome, Titus No. 297 (pl. 56.1)
RIC Volume II (1962 Edition), Rome, Titus, No. 234
RIC Volume II, Part 1 (second edition), Titus, No. 472 (Sear No. 2601)

Obverse depiction: Claudius, laureate head facing right
Inscription: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP IMP PP
Reverse depiction: Personification of Spes holding flower
in right hand and demurely raising skirt with left hand
Inscription: IMP T VESP AVG REST - S C (left and right)


Following is the above coin as listed in the CNG XII Triton auction 5 January 2009:



Ancient coin Values have gone up quite a bit since then.