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<p>[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2497964, member: 57495"]I usually hit cngcoins.com or acsearch.info for preliminary searches, and verify what I find against the actual references if I have them (in this case, RIC). I seldom use Vcoins for identification help unless I come up empty elsewhere... there are many sellers on Vcoins and some of them are much less accurate in their attribution of coins than others. </p><p><br /></p><p>CNG's search shows up two examples of RIC 212:</p><p><a href="http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&CONTAINER_NAME=&ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=&ITEM_DESC=curule+denarius+commodus+branch&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&VIEW_TYPE=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&CONTAINER_NAME=&ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=&ITEM_DESC=curule+denarius+commodus+branch&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&VIEW_TYPE=0" rel="nofollow">http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&CONTAINER_NAME=&ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=&ITEM_DESC=curule+denarius+commodus+branch&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&VIEW_TYPE=0</a></p><p><br /></p><p>As I mentioned in my post, deities are not typically shown seated on curule chairs. This link doesn't show RIC 210 (I couldn't actually find any examples of this online), but you'll notice in the examples the difference of the chair that Pax is seated on compared to the OP coin, and also what a typical "Pax seated with caduceus and branch" looks like:</p><p><a href="http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?PAGE_NUM=&PAGE=1&TABS_TYPE=2&CONTAINER_TYPE_ID=1&IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_DESC=denarius+pax+seated+caduceus&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?PAGE_NUM=&PAGE=1&TABS_TYPE=2&CONTAINER_TYPE_ID=1&IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_DESC=denarius+pax+seated+caduceus&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1" rel="nofollow">http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?PAGE_NUM=&PAGE=1&TABS_TYPE=2&CONTAINER_TYPE_ID=1&IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_DESC=denarius+pax+seated+caduceus&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="zumbly, post: 2497964, member: 57495"]I usually hit cngcoins.com or acsearch.info for preliminary searches, and verify what I find against the actual references if I have them (in this case, RIC). I seldom use Vcoins for identification help unless I come up empty elsewhere... there are many sellers on Vcoins and some of them are much less accurate in their attribution of coins than others. CNG's search shows up two examples of RIC 212: [url]http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&ITEM_INVENTORY_NUMBER=&CONTAINER_NAME=&ITEM_LOT_NUMBER=&ITEM_DESC=curule+denarius+commodus+branch&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1&VIEW_TYPE=0[/url] As I mentioned in my post, deities are not typically shown seated on curule chairs. This link doesn't show RIC 210 (I couldn't actually find any examples of this online), but you'll notice in the examples the difference of the chair that Pax is seated on compared to the OP coin, and also what a typical "Pax seated with caduceus and branch" looks like: [url]http://cngcoins.com/Search.aspx?PAGE_NUM=&PAGE=1&TABS_TYPE=2&CONTAINER_TYPE_ID=1&IS_ADVANCED=1&ITEM_DESC=denarius+pax+seated+caduceus&ITEM_IS_SOLD=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_1=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_3=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_2=1&SEARCH_IN_CONTAINER_TYPE_ID_4=1[/url][/QUOTE]
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