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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 7923550, member: 80783&quot;]He he he thanks for the demonstration <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />. I agree the differences are minor but have been interesting enough to give this coin it´s own Cohen and Gnecchi listing. It will also be listed in the next volume of RIC. </p><p><br /></p><p>I noticed that there are no less than 13 surviving Medallions of Numerianus (most of them in Museums however) surviving from a single obverse die, which might be a record number of die matches for Roman Medallions with the exception of the 8-Aureus piece of Claudius Gothicus of which two dozen were found in a shipwreck.</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin here is certainly not unique, but I do not remember having seen another portrait Sestertius of Tiberius in this forum yet:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1368961[/ATTACH] </p><p>TI CAESAR AVGVSTI F IMPERATOR V - bare head of Tiberius left /</p><p>ROM ET AVG - The great Altar of Roma and Augustus at Lugdunum, flanked by columns surmounted by statues of Victory right and left, the altar ornamented with row of uncertain objects along the top and three wreaths on the front panel. </p><p>Sestertius, Lugdunum AD 10-11 (under Augustus)</p><p>36,43 mm / 22,06 gr</p><p>RIC (Augustus) 240; BMCRE (Augustus) 572-3; CBN (Augustus) 1737; Cayon (<i>Los Sestercios del Imperio Romano</i>) 4; Cohen 28; Sear (<i>Roman Coins &amp; Their Values I</i>) 1753[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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