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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2022504, member: 19463&quot;]Yes but there are exceptions.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I have to disagree with the OP ID to RIC 61 which needs to have the obverse legend with C following IMP.&nbsp; RIC 62 has the legend IMP AVRELIANVS AVG.&nbsp; RIC 62 is a varied number since it covers all the Oriens walking left coins with no C on the obverse.&nbsp; That includes the series of officina marks P to X (ordinals and Roman numerals mixed in where the ordinals would duplicate on used before - S is secundus but sextus and septimus got VI and VII) in exergue, a series P through VII in the field with XXI in exergue, a series AXXI to ZXXI (Greek numerals 1-7),&nbsp; and a series with the&nbsp; P to VII in field as before but the XXI moved into the field to be replaced by a lion in exergue.&nbsp;&nbsp; That means a complete set of RIC 62 would be 31 coins.&nbsp; I sincerely doubt you have enought time on earth remaining to assemble that set since the lions are bears to find.&nbsp; Both of my 62&#039;s are S (6th) officina from the Greek series. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]366470[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]366472[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It gets worse when we move to RIC 63 which offers no lions but has Sol standing still instead of walking.&nbsp;&nbsp; Here you can get the ordinal series P to VII in field with XXI in exergue, a series with Greek numerals in exergue following the XXI and a series moving the Greek numeral before XXI but putting an R for Rome after it.&nbsp; I have the delta to show.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]366471[/ATTACH] </p><p>&nbsp;The next two RIC numbers are still Oriens but Sol gets a bow in 64 (Eng&#039;s coin above) and a trophy in 65.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure how many of these coins actually exist since RIC notes that some of the series had not been seen by them but I doubt many of you were planning on having over 50 or 60 Rome mint Oriens which would be possible.&nbsp; Mat&#039;s coin is a Ticinum mint (TXXT) where the first T stands for Tertia officina and the last for the city name.&nbsp; Mine is a Prima officina but has changed from the Oriens legend to Soli Invicto.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]366473[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Ancient coins:&nbsp; There must be a million of them.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would love to have the new and updated RIC for this period.&nbsp; There will be more varieties if the online listing is any indication.&nbsp;&nbsp; This site is not the easiest to use but they have a lot of nice coins. </p><p><a href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/home" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/home" rel="nofollow">http://www.ric.mom.fr/en/home</a></p><p>How many Aurelian Sols are in your future?&nbsp; Common or rare, only the lion seems to bring a premium.&nbsp; I would not sell mine.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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