I moje pierwsze dwa aureusy:
Ruler: Titus, as Caesar, 69-79 AD.
Obverse: T CAESAR IMP VESPASIANVS; Laureate head of Titus to right.
Reverse: COS VI Roma seated right on pile of shields, holding spear; birds in flight to upper left and right; to lower right, she-wolf standing right, head left, suckling the twins Romulus and Remus
Mint: Rome, 77-78 AD.
Denomination: Aureus
Weight: 6,47 g
Reference: RIC 954
Note: Born in AD 41, Flavius Titus Vespasianus, the elder son of Vespasian. Vespasian had earned acclaim as a general during Claudius' invasion of Britain, and Titus, as he matured, developed into an intelligent, handsome, and charismatic young man, eventually serving as his father's second in command during the Judaean campaign of AD 66-69. Following the collapse of Nero's regime in Rome, Vespasian assumed the throne while Titus took charge of the Judaean war, culminating in the conquest of Jerusalem in AD 70.
Upon his triumphant return to Rome, where suspicions of a coup surrounded him, Titus warmly reunited with his father and was honored with a grand triumph. Subsequently, he held the position of Praetorian Prefect and diligently safeguarded his family's political influence. Upon Vespasian's death in AD 79, Titus ascended to the imperial throne. He was privileged to dedicate the Colosseum, but he also had to deal with the terrible consequences from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius. After barely two years in office, Titus died of a fever on 13 September AD 81; he was promptly deified by the Roman Senate and succeeded by his younger brother Domitian.
During the years 77 and 78 AD the Flavians introduced a host of new reverse types to their precious metal coinage, most of which were based upon types from the Republican and Augustan age. This type is a remarkably faithful reproduction of the reverse from an anonymous Republican denarius struck circa 115/4 B.C, Crawford 287/1 - see my coin:
https://www.colleconline.com/en/items/320410/coins-ancient-to-other-crawford-287-1The type is steeped in the Roman legendary tradition: Roma is shown seated on a pile of shields observing the she-wolf suckling Romulus and Remus as birds fly at either side. Literary tradition has it that nourishment was brought to the twins by a woodpecker (picus), and these birds undoubtedly represent them even if they are not that actual type of bird (for in various media similar scenes substitute other birds, such as eagles and ravens).
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