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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 8080360, member: 31620&quot;]The use of bust types seems to vary mint by mint and issue by issue within those mints.</p><p><br /></p><p>Antioch and Tripolis only used Draped and cuirassed busts.</p><p><br /></p><p>The first four issues of Lugdunum only use cuirassed busts seen from the front. The fifth issue introduced a whole range of more elaborate busts. This issue was produced to celebrate the victorious return through Lugdunum after his battles in Gaul. The mint then generally returns to more normal bust type but with slightly more variation than before with emissions six to nine being primarily Cuirassed busts seen from the front, Draped and cuirassed seen from the rear and Draped and cuirassed seen from the front. In these later issues there are some exceptions such as Cuirassed bust seen from the rear is seen on a single obverse die and there are small numbers of the more elaborate busts seen in the later issues but these coins are generally much scarcer than the standard output.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here we have the typical obverse of the earlier issues at Lugdunum. A cuirassed bust seen from the front where the visible cuirass is quite minimal. This should be compared to the same bust from the latter issues where much more cuirass is visible. It is this stylistic &quot;tell&quot; that allows to distinguish otherwise identical coins and attribute them to the correct emission.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132ep_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here is a later Cuirassed bust seen from the front with the same reverse type. The bust style alone here allows us to place the coins before Issue 5 or after Issue 5.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132ea_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Here are some draped and cuirassed busts from front and rear produced side by side in the same officina in the same emission with the same reverse type.</p><p><br /></p><p>Rear</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132yk_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Front</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI%20132cb%20img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>As was mentioned the Cuirassed bust does occur rarely from the rear but is </p><p><br /></p><p>The standard Cuirassed from front</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132ds_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>The single obverse die known from the rear</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132st_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>The &quot;elaborate busts&quot; do occur in later issues. I have to apologise in advance as my examples are of poor quality. These are allocated to the later issues rather than to Emission 5 by analysis such as the reverse type was introduced in a later emission and not used in emission 5 and even by reverse die matching. This allocation is published in the Bastien volume that covers these issues.</p><p><br /></p><p>Emission 8 - Radiate cuirassed bust left with spear over right shoulder</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132pf_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p>Emission 8 - Radiate bust left wearing imperial mantle, holding Victory on globe in right hand</p><p><img src="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI_132su_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have any emission 9 exceptions to the standard busts which are more obvious as their reverses change to A, B, C and D as officina marks rather than I, II, III and IIII used in the previous 8 emissions.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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