Titus | AE Sestertius

Reference: RIC II.1 498
Date: 80-81 CE
Obverse: IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII: Head of Titus, laureate, right
Reverse: PAX AVGVST S C: Pax, draped, standing left, holding branch out sideways in right hand and cornucopiae in left
Mint: Uncertain Thracian mint
Size: 33.0 mm
Weight: 24.03 grams

SCARCE. The Flavian coinage include an enigmatic series of large bronzes with Latin legends and a distinctive broad fabric that were clearly not produced at at the regular mints of Rome and Lugdunum. Carradice and Buttrey, in RIC II, describe this mint as producing coins with "large portraits with heavy, muscular necks, large reverse figures and lettering that tends to be crowded and heavily seriffed." Other experts have placed this mint in Bithynia (Cahn), or Thrace (Burnett); or  a short-lived officina in Rome (Sear).

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