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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GinoLR, post: 25403574, member: 128351&quot;]These FID EXERCIT sestertii make 1 reference in the RIC : <b>RIC III Commodus 468</b></p><p>But there are varieties :</p><p>468A (three soldiers) - with further varieties ( 468Aa, 468Aca, 468Acb ), depending on the obverse legend and the type of portrait</p><p>468B (four soldiers)</p><p>468C (five soldiers)</p><p>468D (six soldiers)</p><p><br /></p><p>My specimen is a six soldiers 468D variety. I don&#039;t know if it may be called a variety, it is more likely a question of reverse die. There is one example in BNF I could not see (Cohen 517), and there does not seem to be any in the other core collections.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>On ACSearch I could find 6 specimens : all of them, plus mine, are from the same reverse die. But I found 4 different obverse dies, three with a laureate head, one with a laureate bust, drapery on left shoulder.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1627131[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I did not try the same research for the other 3, 4 and 5 soldiers varieties... It would be interesting to check if they are from the same reverse die too.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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