Numismatica Ars Classica
Auction 125 23-24 Jun 2021
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Denarius circa 69 to 70, AR 3.23 g. IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVGVSTVS Laureate head r. Rev. T DOM CAE VESPASIANI AVGVSTI FILI Titus and Domitian, togate, standing facing; between them, two shields and two spears. C –. BMC –. RIC 1344 (this coin illustrated). CBN –.
Of the highest rarity, the finest of only three specimens known. A very interesting
and fascinating issue struck on a very large flan and complete.
Old cabinet tone and extremely fine
Ex Gemini sale IV, 2008, 406 sales.
This is the most fascinating coin in the entire collection. All five known examples of this Flavian type are documented in the excellent article by BERNHARD E. WOYTEK & MARYSE BLET-LEMARQUAND, "The C. L. CAESARES denarii RIC I Augustus 208", published in REVUE NUMISMATIQUE 2017. As stated in the article, many have noted that the Flavians were happy to copy republican and earlier imperial coin types and this coin is clearly modelled on the C.L. CAESARES denarii of Augustus which would have still been in wide circulation at the time. The coin falls squarely into one of the central themes of Flavian coinage, especially evident in the coinage of the provincial mints. Propaganda that Vespasian's sons would ensure the continuation of a new Flavian Dynasty, without issues of succession and under strong leadership. As also noted by Bernhard and Blet-Lemarquand, the type seems so on point for the Flavian Dynastic propaganda, that more widespread copying could only have stopped because Gaius and Lucius never lived to become Emperor. It is also possible that the C.L. CAESARES type was the prototype for the more common reverse type of Titus and Domitian, both veiled and togate, standing facing slightly to the left, each holding a patera.
Denarius circa 69 to 70, AR 3.23 g. IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVGVSTVS Laureate head r. Rev. T DOM CAE VESPASIANI AVGVSTI FILI Titus and Domitian, togate, standing facing; between them, two shields and two spears. C –. BMC –. RIC 1344 (this coin illustrated). CBN –.
Of the highest rarity, the finest of only three specimens known. A very interesting
and fascinating issue struck on a very large flan and complete.
Old cabinet tone and extremely fine
Ex Gemini sale IV, 2008, 406 sales.
This is the most fascinating coin in the entire collection. All five known examples of this Flavian type are documented in the excellent article by BERNHARD E. WOYTEK & MARYSE BLET-LEMARQUAND, "The C. L. CAESARES denarii RIC I Augustus 208", published in REVUE NUMISMATIQUE 2017. As stated in the article, many have noted that the Flavians were happy to copy republican and earlier imperial coin types and this coin is clearly modelled on the C.L. CAESARES denarii of Augustus which would have still been in wide circulation at the time. The coin falls squarely into one of the central themes of Flavian coinage, especially evident in the coinage of the provincial mints. Propaganda that Vespasian's sons would ensure the continuation of a new Flavian Dynasty, without issues of succession and under strong leadership. As also noted by Bernhard and Blet-Lemarquand, the type seems so on point for the Flavian Dynastic propaganda, that more widespread copying could only have stopped because Gaius and Lucius never lived to become Emperor. It is also possible that the C.L. CAESARES type was the prototype for the more common reverse type of Titus and Domitian, both veiled and togate, standing facing slightly to the left, each holding a patera.