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Titus, Quadrans, Julia Titi reverse, Very Rare!

Æ Quadrans; 17mm/3.4gm       Flavian mint in Thrace, ca. 80/1 AD

Con/ Minor loss of legend on the reverse, otherwise, about Extremely Fine. Warm brown patina with bronze highlights, spectacular portrait of the emperor in the highest Flavian style.

Obv/ IMP T CAES DIVI F AVG (Emperor Titus Caesar, son of the Devine Vespasian, Augustus); laur. bust right.

Rev/ IVLIA AVGVSTA; Julia Titi, veiled, seated left, holding patera and scepter.

Ref/ RPC Vol II, 507c

Seller's Note/ Julia Titi was the daughter of the Emperor Titus, and although married, she had an affair with her uncle Domitian. In 83 A.D., Domitian divorced his wife and lived openly with her. It has been said that she died because Domitian forced her to have an abortion but modern historians regard this as likely slander invented after Domitian's assassination.She was deified after her death.