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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;David Atherton, post: 2198890, member: 82616&quot;]Another Vespasian arrived in the mail recently.</p><p><br /></p><p>This RPC Group 1 tetradrachm was struck very early in Vespasian&#039;s reign. He is seen here wearing an aegis, similar in appearance and style to those struck for Nero. The first tetradrachms at Antioch depicting Vespasian with an aegis were struck for regnal year one (July - September 69), this year two coin (October 69 - September 70) was likely minted very soon afterward, perhaps Autumn of 69. The style is &#039;Alexandrian&#039;, indicating either the coin was struck at the Alexandria mint and then sent to Syria or, at the very least, the die was engraved there. Interestingly the aegis depicted on the portrait is a cloak (goat skin?) decorated with a snake on the shoulder, much more elaborate than the aegises engraved at Rome.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]428157[/ATTACH]</p><p>AR Tetradrachm</p><p>Antioch mint, 69-70 AD</p><p>RPC 1937 (4 spec.)</p><p>Obv : AYTOKPAT KAIΣA OYEΣΠAΣIANOY; Head of Vespasian, laureate, r., with aegis</p><p>Rev : ETOYΣ NEOY IEPOY B; Eagle standing r., on thunderbolt; in r. field, palm branch[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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