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Message:: [QUOTE="David Atherton, post: 7639828, member: 82616"]My latest coin is an As from the Restoration series struck by Titus. In hand the piece is quite appealing. [ATTACH=full]1313817[/ATTACH]Tiberius, Restored by TitusÆ As, 10.16gRome mint, 80-81 ADObv: TI CAESAR DIVI AVG F AVGVST IMP VIII; Head of Tiberius, bare, l.Rev: IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG REST; S C in centreRIC 432 (C). BMC -. BNC 294.Acquired from Ken Dorney, May 2021. Ex James Pickering Collection. Titus struck an extensive restoration series of bronze coins of Flavian approved past emperors and imperial family members which reproduced the original coins in their entirety. While this veneration of past coinages was not a new idea (Vespasian copied past types on many reverses for the precious metal issues) it was quite an innovation to copy both the obverse and reverse of these past coinages. To do so likely had a dual purpose - one, to recoin types that were being recalled or falling out of circulation and to keep their memory alive, and secondly to link the Flavian house with those past revered personages. The meaning is quite clear on the reverse with Titus declaring he has restored (REST) the coin. This restoration As struck for Tiberius copies a familiar type originally struck by both Augustus and Tiberius as emperor. From a modern point of view the choice of the coin's subject for restoration is puzzling. Long before Suetonius's infamous swimming pool scene in his Life of Tiberius immortalised Tiberius as a sexual deviant, he apparently was considered in Flavian times as one of the 'good' emperors worthy of remembering, despite his lack of deification. Please feel free to share your coins of Tiberius.[/QUOTE]

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