77-78 AD., Vespasian, Rome mint, Denarius, RIC 943.

Vespasian, Rome mint, 77-78 AD.,
Denarius (18-19 mm / 3,10 g), silver, axis coin alignment ↑↓ (ca. 180°),
Obv.: IMP CAESAR - VESPASIANVS AVG , laureate head of Vespasian right.
Rev.: COS VIII , yoke of oxen standing l.
RIC II (new) p. 127, 943 ; RIC II (old) 107 ; RSC 133a ; Coh. 133 ; BMC p. 38, 206 ; CBN III, p. 106, 184 .

The reverse type is copied from Republican denarii of L. Cassius Caecianus with legend L CASSI in exergue, attributed to 102 BC, Crawford 321/1.

toned blue-gray with some remaining sand at legends

Ex Münzengalerie Grunow, Berlin, ca. 1990s