Vespasian with someone standing

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  1. rrdenarius

    rrdenarius non omnibus dormio

    I picked up an interesting Vespasian bronze coin at the Houston Fall coin show yesterday. There is still time to make a trip to the show today, Sat 11/3. (see coinzip for directions)
    I saw this coin for pocket change and had to have it. It is my first bronze of Vespasian. I have not found the RIC number yet, but it is (to quote @dougsmit ) it is an emperor with someone standing on the back.
    A quick read of the obverse: ..CAESARVESPASIANAVGCOS... (maybe IX or X)...
    Rev - I can see someone standing with what looks like a hand and dish over an alter to the left(??), something at an angle to the right and SC.
    11.6 grams
    26.7 X 27.5 mm
    Post your big Vespasians.

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    Some of things I did not buy:
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  3. Jay GT4

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  4. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    No, Fortuna holds a cornucopiae. This one holds a branch and caduceus, I think. Probably a dupondius, AD 72. IMP CAESAR VESPASIAN AVG COS IIII, radiate head right/PAX AVG, Pax standing l., holding patera over altar, branch and caduceus; in field, S - C. RIC II 1191.
     
  5. Roman Collector

    Roman Collector Well-Known Member

    Here's an example in the British Museum collection:

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  6. TIF

    TIF Always learning.

    You guys were too quick this morning :D. I was just laboring over an identification post. I thought it was an as of Titus or Vespasian, Pax reverse.
     
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  7. Jay GT4

    Jay GT4 Well-Known Member

    Yeah hard to tell. To me it looks like a cornucopia:) but you may be right, it does look like an alter on the left. But the OP's coin doesn't look radiate
     
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  8. David Atherton

    David Atherton Flavian Fanatic

    Ah, the kind of reverse that lets your pareidolia run wild!

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  9. Jay GT4

    Jay GT4 Well-Known Member

    Clearly a lion cub...
     
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