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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 764853, member: 19463&quot;]The face looks like Vespasian and he is known to have issued the type while Titus did not.&nbsp; I suspect the COS date may be VIII.&nbsp; The conventional wisdom separator for coins of father and son is that Titus always used T or TITVS in the legend while Vespasian never did.&nbsp; I can&#039;t tell from the photo but if you are sure there is no T between IMP and CAES, there is no question it is a coin of Vespasian.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Sometimes a coin with surfaces like this can be read more easily if you press in into a thin sheet of aluminum foil and see if the legends can be read from the impression more easily than from the coin itself.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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