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Titus. 79-81 AD. Denarius, 3.35g. (6h). Rome, 79 AD. Obv: IMP T CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG Head laureate right. Rx: CE - RES - AVGVST Ceres, veiled, standing left holding wheat ears and long torch. RIC 3 (R ). BM 105. Good VF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 271, 17-19 February 2011, lot 2287.
A rare type for Titus as Augustus: not in the Reka Devnia hoard, the Paris collection, or Berk photfile; not in Cohen, who apparently overlooked the BM specimen, since it has been in the collection since 1823. Two other scarce reverse types, ANNONA AVG and TR POT VIII COS VII, male captive kneeling before trophy, occur with this same obverse legend, and these three types together apparently make up the earliest denarius issue of Titus' reign, struck only between his accession on 23 June 79 and the beginning of his ninth tribunican year on 1 July, as the titles of the dated type show. With the new tribunician year on 1 July 79, Titus' obverse legend was changed to IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M, and the Ceres and Annona types were discontinued.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection. Ex G. Hirsch 271, 17-19 February 2011, lot 2287.
A rare type for Titus as Augustus: not in the Reka Devnia hoard, the Paris collection, or Berk photfile; not in Cohen, who apparently overlooked the BM specimen, since it has been in the collection since 1823. Two other scarce reverse types, ANNONA AVG and TR POT VIII COS VII, male captive kneeling before trophy, occur with this same obverse legend, and these three types together apparently make up the earliest denarius issue of Titus' reign, struck only between his accession on 23 June 79 and the beginning of his ninth tribunican year on 1 July, as the titles of the dated type show. With the new tribunician year on 1 July 79, Titus' obverse legend was changed to IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M, and the Ceres and Annona types were discontinued.