VESPASIAN SILVER DENARIUS – POSTHUMOUS ISSUE WITH CAPRICORNS AND SHIELD ISSUED UNDER TITUS – CHOICE VF NGC GRADED ROMAN IMPERIAL COIN OF THE 12 CAESARS (Inv. 20555)

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20555. ROMAN EMPIRE. VESPASIAN, AD 69-79.
Silver Denarius, 3.46 g, 19 mm. Posthumous issue of Rome, struck under Titus, AD 80-81.
Obv. DIVVS AVGVSTVS VESPASIANVS, laureate head of Vespasian right. Rev. Conjoined capricorns emerging from a globe, shield inscribed SC above.
RIC II.1, 357 (Titus).
NGC graded CHOICE VF, Strike 5/5, Surface 4/5, an issue referencing the symbolism of Augustus. Here the Capricorn is the astrological sign of Augustus and the shield with SC on it, the clipeus virtutis, one of the greatest awards presented to him by the Senate. Titus, by extension, presents his father Vespasian as a “new” Augustus who recently led Rome out of a Civil War following the example of his venerated predecessor.