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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 3587576, member: 82616&quot;]Indeed! This is why I was so excited about it.</p><p><br /></p><p>The question remains - was this supposed to be officially part of the Second issue or did someone accidentally use an old reverse die left over from the First issue? It&#039;s not very clear because even the First issue Annona is <i>very </i>rare. It took me ages to find an example for my collection!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]958128[/ATTACH]<b>Titus</b></p><p>AR Denarius, 3.17g</p><p>Rome mint, 79 AD</p><p>RIC 2 (R2). BMC specimen acquired 1934. RSC - .</p><p>Obv: IMP T CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG; Head of Titus, laureate, bearded, r.</p><p>Rev: ANNONA AVG; Annona std. l., with sack of corn ears</p><p><br /></p><p>Just to illustrate how rare the First issue Annona is - the eminent Flavian collector Harry Sneh systematically collected Titus in silver, he was never able to obtain an example.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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