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ID number: BIRBI-R1025 Object type: Coin
Institution: The Barber Institute of Fine Arts Named collection: G. Haines Collection Collector: Haines, Geoffrey Maker: Vespasian; Rome Denomination: As Place made: Rome Culture: Roman Date made: AD 77-78 Metal: Base Metal Diameter (cm): 2.75 Weight (g): 10.83 Axis (degrees): 180.00 |

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Description: Obverse: Bust of Vespasian, laureate, l. Reverse: S - C, l. and r. Spes advancing l. holding her skirt in her l. hand and something in her r. hand.
Inscriptions: Obverse: (anticlockwise) IMP CAESAR VESPΛSIΛN COS VIII (Emperor Caesar Vespasian, Consul for the eighth time). S - C (by order of the senate).
Bibliography: RIC II 2nd ed. 1011
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