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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4410378, member: 75937"]Very nice, [USER=110350]@DonnaML[/USER] ! I don't have a Balbinus to show. As for whether it's a short scepter or a parazonium, even the British Museum can't make up its mind. The print version of BMCRE6 (p. 253) calls it a "short transverse scepter," but their <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1205927&partId=1&searchText=Balbinus+27&page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1205927&partId=1&searchText=Balbinus+27&page=1" rel="nofollow">website</a> describes is as a "parazonium." They have two examples in their collection, BMCRE6 26-27; 27 is their plate coin (yours is every bit as nice): [ATTACH=full]1107414[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]