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Contributor: Teresa Darling.
Issuer: VESPASIAN, AD 69-79. AR Denarius.
Obverse: IMP. CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG., His laureated head to the right.
Reverse: COS VII either side of an eagle standing facing on altar, his wings spread open, his head turned to the left.
Reference: RIC 99; Van Meter 23/3, Cohen 120.
Comments: For more information, read the "Vespasian" entry from De Imperatoribus Romanis.
For recent scholarship on Vespasian see TOCS-IN; for book reviews, see Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews.