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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;IdesOfMarch01, post: 1934414, member: 39084&quot;]Artistic portrait sestertii of the 12 Caesars have been exceedingly scarce recently.&nbsp; Many that are available are either overly smoothed, or even worse, tooled.&nbsp; So I feel fortunate that I was able to acquire the final Titus bronze I needed for my set of Titus 12 Caesars portraits (as/dupondius, sestertius, denarius, aureus) at the recent NAC auction:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]334285[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>TITUS Caesar 69 - 79 A.D.</p><p>AE Sestertius 26.19 g. Rome 74 A.D.&nbsp; RIC Vespasian 739</p><p>T CAES VESPASIAN IMP PON TR POT COS III CENS Laureate head r. Rev. S – C Spes advancing l., holding flower in r. and raising skirt with left</p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;m especially pleased with the quality of the obverse portrait on this coin, its fairly complete legend, and a decent reverse (although the reverse does show somewhat of a flat strike especially in the head and high points of Spes).</p><p><br /></p><p>This leaves on one remaining sestertius to complete my 12 Caesars -- Tiberius -- who is very rare on a portrait (lifetime, not posthumous) sestertius.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>So, incomplete though it may be, I thought it might be interesting to post a group portrait of my 12 Caesars sestertii (note that Julius Caesar and Otho never minted official portrait bronzes during their reigns):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]334290[/ATTACH] </p><p>Left-to-right, top-to-bottom:</p><p><br /></p><p>- Julius Caesar (not minted), Augustus, Tiberius (not yet acquired)</p><p>- Caligula, Claudius, Nero</p><p>- Galba, Otho (not minted), Vitellius</p><p>- Vespasian, Titus, Domitian[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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