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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 4987061, member: 82616&quot;]My latest purchase is a neat Vespasian sestertius that has not one, but two deities on the reverse!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1198062[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>Vespasian</b></p><p>Æ Sestertius, 25.70g</p><p>Rome mint, 71 AD</p><p>Obv: IMP CAES VESPAS AVG P M TR P P P COS III; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r.</p><p>Rev: HONOS ET VIRTVS; S C in exergue; Honos stg. r. with sceptre and cornucopiae, and Virtus stg. l. with spear and parazonium</p><p>RIC 232 (R). BMC 530. BNC 484.</p><p>Acquired from Den of Antiquity, October 2020.</p><p><br /></p><p>Struck during Vespasian&#039;s massive bronze issue of 71, this HONOS ET VIRTVS reverse type copies one struck earlier by Galba. The occasion for resurrecting it may have been prompted by Vespasian&#039;s restoration of the temple of Honos and Virtus recently damaged during Nero&#039;s great fire. Very rare, only two reverse dies for the type were recorded by C. Kraay.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post your &#039;two for ones&#039;![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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