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<p>[QUOTE="dadams, post: 3208887, member: 82194"]<font face="Times New Roman">Excellent coin David!!</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><br /></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I'm short of any Sestertii and I only have this wonderful Vespasian dupondius of the Flavian dynasty that shows much wear, but even it was magical for me as I held it in hand while reading <i>The Lives of the Twelve Caesars</i></font></p><p><img src="http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/ancient/Vespasian-Sear2347.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Vespasian (69-79), Æ28 Dupondius. Lugdunum, AD 77–78.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Obv: IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS VIII PP - Laureate head right, globe under point of bust.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Rev: FIDES PVBLICA - Fides standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae, S-C across fields.</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">Orichalcum, 28.11mm, 12g</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">RIC II Part I (2nd Ed.) 1210; Sear 2347</font></font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="3">a gift from [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] </font></font></p><p><br /></p><p><font face="Times New Roman">I just finished reading <i><a href="http://www.lindseydavis.co.uk/publications/the-course-of-honour/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.lindseydavis.co.uk/publications/the-course-of-honour/" rel="nofollow">The Course of Honour</a></i> by Lindsey Davis which featured Vespasian, the freedwoman Caenis, Titus and Domitian. Historical fiction, but a good read nonetheless - now I have a hankering to add a couple more Flavians!</font>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dadams, post: 3208887, member: 82194"][FONT=Times New Roman]Excellent coin David!! I'm short of any Sestertii and I only have this wonderful Vespasian dupondius of the Flavian dynasty that shows much wear, but even it was magical for me as I held it in hand while reading [I]The Lives of the Twelve Caesars[/I][/FONT] [IMG]http://www.bibliopath.com/coins/ancient/Vespasian-Sear2347.jpg[/IMG] [FONT=Times New Roman][SIZE=3]Vespasian (69-79), Æ28 Dupondius. Lugdunum, AD 77–78. Obv: IMP CAES VESPASIAN AVG COS VIII PP - Laureate head right, globe under point of bust. Rev: FIDES PVBLICA - Fides standing left, holding patera and cornucopiae, S-C across fields. Orichalcum, 28.11mm, 12g RIC II Part I (2nd Ed.) 1210; Sear 2347 a gift from [USER=81808]@Aethelred[/USER] [/SIZE][/FONT] [FONT=Times New Roman]I just finished reading [I][URL='http://www.lindseydavis.co.uk/publications/the-course-of-honour/']The Course of Honour[/URL][/I] by Lindsey Davis which featured Vespasian, the freedwoman Caenis, Titus and Domitian. Historical fiction, but a good read nonetheless - now I have a hankering to add a couple more Flavians![/FONT][/QUOTE]
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