80-81 AD, Titus for Divus Vespasian, Rome mint, gaming token or scale weight, tooled in antiquity from Sestertius RIC 259.
Titus for Divus Vespasian (died 79 AD.), Rome mint, struck 80-81 AD.,
Æ gaming token from a sesterius (ø 29-30 mm / 20,09 g), brass, axis about coin alignment ?? (ca. 200°), tooled, hammered edge,
Obv.: [DIVO AVG VESPAS] , deified Vespasian, holding Victory and sceptre, seated right in cart drawn by quadriga of elephants with riders, holding sceptre and Victory in cart drawn by a quadriga of elephants with riders; [S P Q R] in exergue.
Rev.: [ IMP T CAES DIVI VESP F AVG P M TR P P P COS VIII ] around large S • C . Reverse smoothed down, presumably in antiquity.
RIC 259 (R2) ;BMCRE 222, pl. 51.5 var. ; CBN 229, pl. LXXXIII var. ; Cohen 205 (25 Fr.) .
Possibly a gaming token or scale weight, both categories have recorded designs of this general type.
Sesterz, mit aufgehämmertem Rand ("Protokontorniat" als Spielstein). mit stark aufgehämmertem Rand zur Verwendung als Spielstein.