Watch List notes:

Titus; 79-81 AD, Rome, c. July 79 AD, Denarius, 3.05g. RIC-15 (R2), cf. BM-4 (aureus). Obv: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M Head laureate r. Rx: TR P VIIII IMP XIIII COS VII Venus, seen half from behind, naked except for drapery around legs, standing r., l. elbow on column, holding helmet and spear. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection; ex Dorotheum 465, November 1992, lot 52. Rare early issue of Titus as Augustus not yet naming him P P (Father of his Country); Titus apparently accepted this title quite soon after the beginning of his ninth tribunician year on 1 July 79. This Venus type not in BMC or RSC as denarius without P P; the new RIC cites it only from Berlin and a private collection.Hair flatly struck on obverse Hair flatly struck on obverse. Good VF (210)