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Lot 691

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Titus. 79-81 AD. As, 9.72g. (6h). Rome, 80-81 AD. Obv: IMP T CAES VESP AVG P M TR P COS VIII Head laureate left. Rx: SECVRIT - AVGVST S C Securitas, wearing stephane, seated left before lighted and garlanded altar, holding scepter in right hand and supporting head with left; a semicircular extension of the back of the throne frames her head. RIC 241 (R2). Unusual portrait. Good VF.

Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.

A rare variant, cited by RIC 241 from specimens in Berlin and Munich. The reverse legend can also be SECVRIT AVG or SECVRITAS AVGVST, and Securitas may sit right rather than left; on the obverse the portrait may face either way.
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