48	NUMISMATIC  CHRONICLE.
Emperor's family, particularly with a due regard to those considerations as to succession, which were perhaps the more present to the Emperor's mind owing to his advanced age.
28. Oh.—. IMP. CAESAE YESPASIANVS  AYG.    Laureate head to r.
Jfcp.-— COS ITEE. TE. POT.   Equity to 1 , with sceptre and scales.    113£ grs.    [No. 186.]
The second consulate of the Emperor was in a.d. 70, the year o£ his entry into Rome, when this piece must have been struck. All the other aurei of the same year bear the same inscription, with the deity Mars or Neptune on the reverse, with the exception of one which is inscribed COS . ITEE . FOET . BED ,, with the figure of Fortune.
I include this piece, which appears as No. 30 in the first edition of Cohen, both in gold and silver, but is omitted altogether, in both metals, from the second edition, in order to call attention not only to that omission, but to the careless omission also in the second edition, of various gold and silver pieces bearing the same inscription, and described in the first edition under the -numbers 32, 33, and 34.
29. 0fc.— IMP. YESPAS. AVGK P.M. TEL P.P.P. COS. IIII.   Laureate bust to 1.
Rev.— PAX AYGrVSTI. Naked male figure, with mantle over left shoulder, and holding a sceptre in the left hand, raises, with the right, a kneeling woman, who wears a turreted crown. 114£ grs. [No. 189.]
Cohen, in mentioning (No. 322) a somewhat similar piece in the British Museum, describes the figure on the