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<p>[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3360620, member: 103829"]This was my very first ancient coin, acquired in 1992:</p><p><br /></p><p>Claudius, AD 41-54</p><p>As, 10.97g, 26mm, 180°</p><p>Rome, AD 41</p><p>obv. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IM[P]</p><p>bare head l.</p><p>rev. LIBERTAS AVGVSTA</p><p>Libertas standing frontal, head r., holding pileus in r. hand, between large S-C</p><p>ref. RIC I, 97; C.47; BMCR 145, pl. 35, 3</p><p>about VF</p><p> [ATTACH=full]890683[/ATTACH]</p><p>From Curtis Clay: "The obverse of Jochen's As shows the rare earliest portrait of Claudius' reign, youthful and reminescent of his brother Germanicus. His coin is from the same rev. die as an As in Munich which has obv. legend TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG IMP TR POT instead of the usual legend ending AVG P M TR P IMP. That Munich legend, which occurs on one die only, omits P M, an office that Claudius had probably not yet assumed when the die was cut, so is apparently the earliest die for bronze coins of the reign. The shared rev. die confirms the early date of both that obv. legend and the youthful idealized portrait of Claudius. The obv. of Jochen's coin is from a die I hadn't known before, I think only the third or fourth die with the early portrait that I have found. </p><p>I think Jochen's coin will have a rank high among the luckiest first purchases ever made!"[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Jochen1, post: 3360620, member: 103829"]This was my very first ancient coin, acquired in 1992: Claudius, AD 41-54 As, 10.97g, 26mm, 180° Rome, AD 41 obv. TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IM[P] bare head l. rev. LIBERTAS AVGVSTA Libertas standing frontal, head r., holding pileus in r. hand, between large S-C ref. RIC I, 97; C.47; BMCR 145, pl. 35, 3 about VF [ATTACH=full]890683[/ATTACH] From Curtis Clay: "The obverse of Jochen's As shows the rare earliest portrait of Claudius' reign, youthful and reminescent of his brother Germanicus. His coin is from the same rev. die as an As in Munich which has obv. legend TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG IMP TR POT instead of the usual legend ending AVG P M TR P IMP. That Munich legend, which occurs on one die only, omits P M, an office that Claudius had probably not yet assumed when the die was cut, so is apparently the earliest die for bronze coins of the reign. The shared rev. die confirms the early date of both that obv. legend and the youthful idealized portrait of Claudius. The obv. of Jochen's coin is from a die I hadn't known before, I think only the third or fourth die with the early portrait that I have found. I think Jochen's coin will have a rank high among the luckiest first purchases ever made!"[/QUOTE]
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