Titus. 79-81 AD. Denarius, 3.35g. (7h). Rome, 79 AD. Obv: IMP TITVS CAES VESPASIAN AVG P M Head laureate left. Rx: TR P VIIII IMP XIIII COS VII P P Venus, seen half from behind, naked except for drapery around hips, standing right, left elbow on column, holding helmet and spear. RIC 35 (R ). BM 11. EF.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.
Rare with portrait left: not in the Reka Devnia hoard, Paris, or Cohen. RIC records and illustrates the BM specimen, acquired in 1925, which is from different dies than ours.