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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3209748, member: 75937&quot;]That&#039;s a lovely sestertius of Titus, [USER=82616]@David Atherton[/USER] ! It has a lot of eye-appeal and I like the toning. One doesn&#039;t come across a Titus sestertius like this every day. </p><p><br /></p><p>Nothing says brotherly love like a dual-portrait coin of Titus and Domitian:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]833109[/ATTACH] </p><p>Titus and Domitian, Caesares, AD 69-81. </p><p>Roman provincial Æ 18.5 mm, 5.14 g, 5 h. </p><p>Lycaonia, Laodicea Combusta (Laodikeia Katakekaumene / Claudio-Laodicea). </p><p>Obv: TITOC KAI ΔOMITIANOC KAICAΡEC, bare head of Titus right, facing bare head of Domitian left. </p><p>Rev: KΛAYΔIO ΛAOΔIKЄѠN, Cybele, polos on head, seated left, holding patera and tympanum; lion beneath throne. </p><p>Refs: RPC II 1613; von Aulock Lykaoniens 151; SNG von Aulock 8416; Waddington 4779; SNG France III 2322.</p><p><br /></p><p>But on a different note, I see you&#039;re talking about fiction set in the Roman empire:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Let me put in a plug for Ruth Downie, the author of a <a href="https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=ruth+downie+medicus+series&amp;sprefix=Ruth+Downi%2Caps%2C218&amp;crid=OQ2RPKEKGC82" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://smile.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_10?url=search-alias%3Daps&amp;field-keywords=ruth+downie+medicus+series&amp;sprefix=Ruth+Downi%2Caps%2C218&amp;crid=OQ2RPKEKGC82" rel="nofollow">series of whodunnits</a> set early in the reign of Hadrian.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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