ing branch and winged caduceus. RIC 1311 (R2), pl. 71 = BM 355, pl. 11, 7 (same dies). Calicó 607. Carradice et al., Tarraco (2010), 8 (three specimens, from two obverse and one reverse die). A very rare Tarraco-mint aureus, apparently only the fourth specimen recorded. Distinctive portrait. About Very Fine $3,250
Tarraco, c. 69-70 AD. Obv: IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG Head laureate left. Rx: VICTORIA IMP - VESPASIANI Victory standing left on globe, holding wreath and palm. RIC 1340 (R). BM 361. Paris 30 var. Cohen 631 (100 Fr.). Some corrosion on lower part of obverse. About EF $750
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from Pegasi, 2011.
Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection.
733. Vespasian with Titus and Domitian. 69-79 AD. Denarius, 3.32g (6h). Tarraco, 70 AD. Obv: [IMP] CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG Head of Vespasian laureate right. Rx: [CAES]AR AVG F COS CAESAR AVG [F PR] Bare heads of Titus and Domitian facing each other. RIC 1302 (R), pl. 71 = Paris 2, pl. XXVII (wrongly under Rome, same rev. die as ours). BM 351A, pl. 11.3 (same obv. die as ours). Cohen 5 (30 Fr.). Fine $375 Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection, purchased from The Time Machine, January 2011. According to Harry Sneh’s ticket this specimen is listed and illustrated in I. Carradice et al., Les Monedas de la Provincia Tarraconensis (69-70 dC), Barcelona 2010, D-3.6, p. 153, 12 specimens known. Much rarer than the Romemint version of the same coin.
100 Francs in Cohen
734. Vespasian. 69-79 AD. Denarius, 3.13g (6h).
According to Harry Sneh’s ticket this specimen is cited in I. Carradice’s Tarraconensis book, D-11.33 (same obverse die as D-11.23). Interesting reverse legend and rare, but Cohen’s 100-franc valuation seems excessive! The die axis of our coin is inverted, showing that the mint in question sometimes used that axis, not restricting itself to the upright axis, as RIC states.
735. Vespasian, fourrée coupling rare Lugdunese obverse legend with Rome-mint aureus reverse type. 69-79 AD. Denarius, 2.93g (6h). Obv: IMP CAES VESPAS AVG TR P COS III Head laureate right. Rx: VIC - AVG across field, Victory standing right on globe, holding wreath and palm. . Fine $150 Ex Harry N. Sneh Collection. A plated ancient counterfeit coupling a rare obverse of Vespasian at Lugdunum in 71 AD (BM 363) with a Rome-mint reverse of aurei only (RIC 47). RIC 48 tentatively accepts a Rome-mint denarius of the VIC AVG type, but as Harry Sneh observed the only known specimen, Paris 48, is from the same reverse die as our present plated coin, so must itself also just be a plated ancient counterfeit.
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