Titus as Caesar. Denarius; Titus as Caesar; 70-79 AD, Rome, Late 76 AD, Denarius, 3.41g. RIC-863 (R2); obv. leg. var. of BM-305, Paris-268, and C-106. Obv: T CAESAR - IMP VESPASIAN Head laureate r. Rx: IOVIS - CVSTOS Jupiter standing front holding patera over altar and scepter. A neglected rare variant of this denarius with VESPASIAN rather than VESPASIANVS in the obverse legend, originally published by Gnecchi in Riv. it. 1893, p. 282, but overlooked in BMC and the first edition of RIC. This variant allows us to date the IOVIS CVSTOS type precisely to 76 AD, when Titus' obverse legend with VESPASIANVS evidently replaced that with just VESPASIAN. Ex Curtis L. Clay Collection.. gVF