Germanicus As Reverse Die-Match to Cohen Line Drawing

A good line drawing can be as good as a photo for die-matching!


Germanicus, 15 BC - AD 19.
Roman Æ as, 11.18 g, 27.5 mm, 7 h.
Rome, issued under Caligula, AD 40-41.
Obv: GERMANICVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N, bare-head of Germanicus, left.
Rev: C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG P M TR P IIII P P around large SC.
Refs: RIC 50; BMCRE 74-78; Cohen 4; RCV 1822; CBN 123.
Note: Reverse die-match to Henry Cohen, Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l'Empire Romain, Tome I, Paris, 1880, page 225, no. 4.

Here's the listing in Cohen, which is thankfully illustrated:



I do not believe the obverse is a die-match, but I'm quite confident the reverse is, because the letters in the inscription are absolutely superimposable:



I suspect the coin has been subjected to some smoothing, resulting in the loss of the centration dot where the die-engraver used a compass to lay out the circle in which the design was placed and the compass point left an indentation in the die.

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Cool!

Superimposing the images to check for a die match is much easier when one of them is a line drawing. Definitely a die match .




I have a similar coin which was part of a large mixed lot purchased in 2013.


Germanicus
assassinated October 10, 19 AD
struck 42/43 AD under Claudius, Rome mint
AE As, 30mm
Obv: bare head right; GERMANICVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N
Rev: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG GERM P M TR P IMP P P around large SC
Ref: RIC I 106 (Claudius); Sear5 #1905; Cohen 9; BMC 241

 

Thanks, @TIF. Yours is a very nice coin, too.

 

TIF, that superimposition settles any debate. What a great tool to have!

 

Thats really cool!