Gemini, LLC
Auction X 13 January 2013
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Titus as Caesar. 70-79 AD. Denarius, 3.43g. (6h). Rome, 76 AD. Obv: [T] CAESAR IMP - VESPASIANVS Head laureate left. Rx: COS - V across field, Eagle with raised wings standing left on garlanded altar, head right. RIC 871 (R3, citing this coin from eBay 2002). VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Marty Schmitt, eBay, 19 November 2002.
RIC 871 cites this same specimen. A very rare reverse variant at Rome (commoner at the uncertain Asia Minor mint that copied Roman types) with eagle looking right rather than left, and apparently unique coupled with portrait left on the obverse. The variant with portrait right is R2 according to RIC 870, and the illustrated BM specimen (pl. 10) is from the same reverse die as our coin, confirming the rarity of this reverse type at Rome. The obverse die of our coin was also used for aurei: see lot 632 above and also RIC 869, pl. 10.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Marty Schmitt, eBay, 19 November 2002.
RIC 871 cites this same specimen. A very rare reverse variant at Rome (commoner at the uncertain Asia Minor mint that copied Roman types) with eagle looking right rather than left, and apparently unique coupled with portrait left on the obverse. The variant with portrait right is R2 according to RIC 870, and the illustrated BM specimen (pl. 10) is from the same reverse die as our coin, confirming the rarity of this reverse type at Rome. The obverse die of our coin was also used for aurei: see lot 632 above and also RIC 869, pl. 10.