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<p>[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3773352, member: 98035"]Outside of my LRB's, I do have this Marcus Aurelius</p><p>M ANTONINVS AVG GERM SARM, laureate head right</p><p>TR P XXXI <b>IMP VIIII</b> COS III P P, Jupiter seated left, holding Victory and sceptre.</p><p>RIC 381</p><p>"Common"</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1009038[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Despite being called common, I cannot find a single other example of this coin anywhere online. Furthermore, the TR P XXXI + IMP VIIII combination is apparently rare in itself; Aurelius must have received his ninth acclamation very shortly before his 32nd TR P year, that is, October or November 177. As pointed out on another forum, the abrupt end of Jupiter's staff into the final stroke of VIIII indicates that no dies were even made for 381, and this coin was made by a re-worked die for 371, the same type but with IMP VIII. It is therefore possible that only a handful were ever made, as the reverse die was clearly near the end of its life on this coin.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Finn235, post: 3773352, member: 98035"]Outside of my LRB's, I do have this Marcus Aurelius M ANTONINVS AVG GERM SARM, laureate head right TR P XXXI [B]IMP VIIII[/B] COS III P P, Jupiter seated left, holding Victory and sceptre. RIC 381 "Common" [ATTACH=full]1009038[/ATTACH] Despite being called common, I cannot find a single other example of this coin anywhere online. Furthermore, the TR P XXXI + IMP VIIII combination is apparently rare in itself; Aurelius must have received his ninth acclamation very shortly before his 32nd TR P year, that is, October or November 177. As pointed out on another forum, the abrupt end of Jupiter's staff into the final stroke of VIIII indicates that no dies were even made for 381, and this coin was made by a re-worked die for 371, the same type but with IMP VIII. It is therefore possible that only a handful were ever made, as the reverse die was clearly near the end of its life on this coin.[/QUOTE]
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