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<p>[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3434979, member: 80783"]Yep. Here is my first Crispina - very well-worn but I still like it because of it´s golden Orichalcum tone - nevertheless I think the OP coin is a huge improvement:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]911852[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Your Crispinas No 2 and 4 feature Crispinas second (and last) portrait style: the hairstyle of the first type featuring a heavy plaid ("Stirnrollen-Melonenfrisur") is replaced by an entirely new coiffure in which the hair is gently waved, parted in the center, and again drawn into a large bun. The hair descends low on the neck and entiely covers the ears. The physiognomy is comparable to the first type.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are no further styles recorded on the coinage because minting for Crispina seems to have ceased after 182 AD, even though she must have retained her title as Augusta for almost another decade.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>This must have been her very earliest emission, because there seems to have been a demand to explain the reason for her status as Augusta which must have been deemed superfluous on later emissions.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear dates this legend to 178-180 and the shorter one to 180-182, but does not take into account the different portrait types discussed above and the absolute rarity of the first version.</p><p>The Guelma hoard which shows a rather representative sample of the Sestertii in circulation in North Africa in 255 aD includes 31 Sestertii with the short legend but not a single specimen with the long one. Banti in comparison found 113 Sestertii with the short and 18 with the long legend in museums and collections in 1985.</p><p><br /></p><p>Therefore I would date Crispinas coins like this:</p><p>1) First style, long legend: 178</p><p>2) First style, short legend: 178-180</p><p>3) Second style, short legend: 180-182[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Julius Germanicus, post: 3434979, member: 80783"]Yep. Here is my first Crispina - very well-worn but I still like it because of it´s golden Orichalcum tone - nevertheless I think the OP coin is a huge improvement: [ATTACH=full]911852[/ATTACH] Your Crispinas No 2 and 4 feature Crispinas second (and last) portrait style: the hairstyle of the first type featuring a heavy plaid ("Stirnrollen-Melonenfrisur") is replaced by an entirely new coiffure in which the hair is gently waved, parted in the center, and again drawn into a large bun. The hair descends low on the neck and entiely covers the ears. The physiognomy is comparable to the first type. There are no further styles recorded on the coinage because minting for Crispina seems to have ceased after 182 AD, even though she must have retained her title as Augusta for almost another decade. This must have been her very earliest emission, because there seems to have been a demand to explain the reason for her status as Augusta which must have been deemed superfluous on later emissions. Sear dates this legend to 178-180 and the shorter one to 180-182, but does not take into account the different portrait types discussed above and the absolute rarity of the first version. The Guelma hoard which shows a rather representative sample of the Sestertii in circulation in North Africa in 255 aD includes 31 Sestertii with the short legend but not a single specimen with the long one. Banti in comparison found 113 Sestertii with the short and 18 with the long legend in museums and collections in 1985. Therefore I would date Crispinas coins like this: 1) First style, long legend: 178 2) First style, short legend: 178-180 3) Second style, short legend: 180-182[/QUOTE]
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