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<p>[QUOTE="Kiaora, post: 4664953, member: 76733"]Per your request for coins that pose difficulties I would be interested in your thoughts on this coin of Maximianus, ex Sydenham: noted in LMCC under the section <b>Reported Types Not Included in this catalogue</b> as 'an apparent variety of 2.01.007:</p><p><b>IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG</b>, laureate and cuirassed bust right </p><p><b>GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI</b>, Genius standing left etc., <i>altar left and drapery around waist</i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]1150512[/ATTACH] </i></p><p>As LMCC notes, "The reverse of this coin with the altar and draped loins is more reminiscent of Lugdunum, <i>but the obverse is clearly of London style </i>(emphasis added) cf. RIC VI 17-22". It goes on to say "The laboured handling of the reverse design, especially of the drapery, suggests an attempt by a British forger, unfamiliar with this design, to copy a Lyon coin such as RIC VI 167. The engraver was careful to drop the right field mark and the mint mark, but retailed the altar in the left field, perhaps not realising it too was part of the Lyon mark". While the engraving of the letters is a bit clumsy, I must confess to not being convinced it is necessarily the work of a forger[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Kiaora, post: 4664953, member: 76733"]Per your request for coins that pose difficulties I would be interested in your thoughts on this coin of Maximianus, ex Sydenham: noted in LMCC under the section [B]Reported Types Not Included in this catalogue[/B] as 'an apparent variety of 2.01.007: [B]IMP C MAXIMIANVS P F AVG[/B], laureate and cuirassed bust right [B]GENIO POPV-LI ROMANI[/B], Genius standing left etc., [I]altar left and drapery around waist [ATTACH=full]1150512[/ATTACH] [/I] As LMCC notes, "The reverse of this coin with the altar and draped loins is more reminiscent of Lugdunum, [I]but the obverse is clearly of London style [/I](emphasis added) cf. RIC VI 17-22". It goes on to say "The laboured handling of the reverse design, especially of the drapery, suggests an attempt by a British forger, unfamiliar with this design, to copy a Lyon coin such as RIC VI 167. The engraver was careful to drop the right field mark and the mint mark, but retailed the altar in the left field, perhaps not realising it too was part of the Lyon mark". While the engraving of the letters is a bit clumsy, I must confess to not being convinced it is necessarily the work of a forger[/QUOTE]
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