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Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD. Denarius, 3.21g. (5h). Rome, Late 76 AD. Obv: T CAESAR - IMP VESPASIAN Head laureate right. Rx: IOVIS - CVSTOS Jupiter standing front holding patera over altar and scepter. RIC 863 (R2). Obv. legend var. of BM 305, Paris 268, and Cohen 106. EF/Good VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection. Ex CNG 53, 15 March 2000, lot 1498.
A neglected rare variant of this denarius with VESPASIAN rather than VESPASIANVS in the obverse legend, originally published by Gnecchi in Riv. It. 1893, p. 282, but overlooked in BMC and the first edition of RIC, which allows us to date the IOVIS CVSTOS type precisely to 76 AD, when Titus' obverse legend with VESPASIANVS replaced that with VESPASIAN.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection. Ex CNG 53, 15 March 2000, lot 1498.
A neglected rare variant of this denarius with VESPASIAN rather than VESPASIANVS in the obverse legend, originally published by Gnecchi in Riv. It. 1893, p. 282, but overlooked in BMC and the first edition of RIC, which allows us to date the IOVIS CVSTOS type precisely to 76 AD, when Titus' obverse legend with VESPASIANVS replaced that with VESPASIAN.