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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;VDB, post: 3311817, member: 82270&quot;][ATTACH=full]877267[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]877268[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Picked up this beauty at the 2019 New York International Numismatic Convention in Manhattan. It’s my first of the Twele Caesars and I love it. Still very new to ancients, but have been making some slow progress through literature and online research. </p><p><br /></p><p>This very coin was a part of the Knobloch Collection which was auctioned in May of 1980. The obverse depicts a bare head of Augustus facing right with the legend that reads simply AVGVSTVS. The reverse is a laurel wreath intertwined with prows (corona rostrata) with ties at center. It was supposedly struck in 21 B.C.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>As soon as I brough this piece home I immediately went to the David Sear book to match it to a listing and could not find it. The dealer from which I purchased the piece listed it as RIC 105a, but that turned out to be inaccurate since the ANS catalogue lists 105a as Head of Augustus, laureate, right with a totally different reverse. My next step was to review the original Stacks catalogue from the 1980 auction. The lot was listed under number 11 and identified under RIC 57, which again did not match up anything I could find. I finally identified the coin as RIC 473 through the ANS online database. Now everything added up. Except the above mentioned errors.</p><p><br /></p><p>&nbsp;As I mentioned, I’m still a novice in this field of numismatics. Any feedback on my research is welcome. Did I miss something? Could I have done something differently? Do RIC numbers change over time? </p><p><br /></p><p>Also, would love to see other Augustus (or related) examples. Feel free to share! </p><p><br /></p><p>Hope everyone is having a great day!</p><p><br /></p><p>VZ[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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