Lot 1214
Vespasian, with Titus and Domitian, as Caesars. Silver Denarius (3.29 g), AD 69-79. Ephesus. IMP CAESAR VESPAS AVG COS III TR P P P, laureate head of Vespasian right. Rev. AVG VESPAS above, LIBERI IMP below, bare heads of Titus, on left, and Domitian, on right, confronted; between, E(PHE). (RIC 1429; RPC 831; BN 347; BMC 455; RSC 2a). Attractive antique tone. Superb extremely fine. Estimate $7,500UP
Ex Gorny & Mosch 133 (11 October 2004), lot 434.
Ex Heritage / Gemini VIII (14 April 2011), lot 301.
Ex Goldberg 70 (4 September 2012), lot 3238.
Ex Manhattan Sale IV (8 January 2013), lot 156.
The portraits of Vespasian and his designated successors, his sons Titus and Domitian, here serve to draw attention to Vespasian's founding a new dynasty and were meant to reassure the populace that there was a plan for an orderly succession in the Flavian house, an important message after the upheaval of the recent civil war (AD 69). The value of this sort of reassuring dynastic typology may be gauged by Septimius Severus' reuse and adaptation of it for some of his coinages struck in the aftermath of the civil wars of AD 193-197.
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