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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2328208, member: 19463&quot;]C, F refers to a bust code list somewhere in RIC V before that point that defined busts with drapery and cuirass or just cuirass.&nbsp; I believe it is well hidden in volume V just before Carus???&nbsp; I will never understand the choices made by authors of 90% of the coin books I have read.&nbsp; Are all of mine Cuirassed only or some D&amp;C?&nbsp; To answer that go searching for coins with more drapery.&nbsp; I did.</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1105919" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1105919" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=1105919</a>&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>The point here was both coins were the came RIC number (581) and so are the rest of the&nbsp; HP KOY ΛI series unless the obverse legend had PF instead of just P in which case they assigned RIC 580 no matter what the reverse legend since they considered the HP here as just a part of the officina A designation and did not assign different numbers to bust differences.&nbsp; The two coins differ in bust style but not in obverse legend so both are 581.&nbsp; Equally unimportant as far as RIC number goes is where the A or other officina letter is placed (field, before XXI or after XXI).&nbsp; I probably would not have made several choices as done by the authors of RIC (especially volume V).&nbsp; </p><p>Below are examples of the KOY and ΛI coins all RIC 580 because all have PF unlike both of my HP coins shown above.&nbsp; The bare bust is considerably less common and the new HP is my only example.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]471647[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]471648[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]471649[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]471650[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>That brings us back to the question for everyone: Should I sell duplicates or (new version of question) buy the other versions I still lack?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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