70 AD., Vespasian, Tarraco mint (?), Æ As, RIC 1337.
Vespasian, Hispania, Tarraco mint (?), 70 AD.,
Æ As (27-28 mm / 10,28 g),
Obv.: IMP CAESAR VESPASIANVS AVG P M TR P , laureate bust of Vespasian right.
Rev.: [IMP V] P P COS II DESIG III FORT RED / S - C , front view of Fortuna standing, her head left, her right hand on prow, her left holding cornucopia.
RIC II (old), - (cf. p. 62, 387, 390) ; RIC II, part I (new) 1337 (R) .
Curtis Clay 21.Nov.2007: "Three specimens were known to Carradice and Buttrey, according to my draft of their new RIC catalogue: in Oxford, Rome, and BM (acq. 1989)."