"I think we have to accept it as genuinelyĪuction house in the U.S., who studied it for over a month, and sought the Which had been produced virtually at the same moment at the Rome mint amid the abundant bronze coinages of or even could have - stretched out his hand toward the mountains of randomĪsses and dupondii still surviving, and come up with three pieces to work on Modern craftsman, attempting to create an un-struck type for Titus, would have “It is certainly beyond belief that an evil However the reverses were struck from three separate dies (the nature and placing of the arches below the steeple).” The Fitzwilliam Museum (author of RIC II.1)Ģ05 = L195A and piece, were struck from the same obverse die, while Paris was struck fromĪ very similar die by the same engraver (the way the wreath ends terminate at COĪnd OS respectively. I have removed the tooling comment from our specimen's recordĪnd copy the author of RIC II.1 for hisĭr. (as far as changing the type is concerned). Had clearly been created from exactly the same die pair it Of course if another specimen came along with Has been re-engraved ('tooled') in modern times The (inferior condition) BM specimen is: (Quote) “What a splendid thing! In the new The curator of Roman coins at the British Museum wrote: The British Museum, London and the Fitzwilliam museum at Cambridge. Recesses in its mid-section contain statues of male figures.Ī third, and only other example, is in theīibliothèque nationale de France "Paris."Ĭoin was purchsed in the Mediteranian area over 50 years ago and it is time to Obv: IMP TĬAES VESP AVG P M TR P COS VIII.
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