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Titus Æ Sestertius. Uncertain Balkan/Thracian(?) mint, AD 80-81. IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII, laureate head to right / Mars, nude except for cloak and helmet, advancing to right holding spear in right hand and trophy over shoulder with left hand; S-C across fields. RIC II.2 499; BMCRE 310 (Lugdunum); BN 324 (Mint in Bithynia); RPC II 502 (Thrace). 24.63g, 35mm, 7h.
Near Very Fine; cleaned.
From the inventory of a European dealer.
The distinction between Flavian coins of Rome and this unknown eastern mint can be problematic since they share reverse types, obverse legends, and are frequently similar in style. This coin is a good example of the features which point to an attribution to the Thracian mint, distinguished by RIC II.2 as coins with 'large portraits with heavy, muscular necks, large reverse figures and lettering that tends to be crowded and heavily seriffed; on grounds of fabric: flat or slightly convex on both sides...' (p. 193).
Near Very Fine; cleaned.
From the inventory of a European dealer.
The distinction between Flavian coins of Rome and this unknown eastern mint can be problematic since they share reverse types, obverse legends, and are frequently similar in style. This coin is a good example of the features which point to an attribution to the Thracian mint, distinguished by RIC II.2 as coins with 'large portraits with heavy, muscular necks, large reverse figures and lettering that tends to be crowded and heavily seriffed; on grounds of fabric: flat or slightly convex on both sides...' (p. 193).