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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Julius Germanicus, post: 3603442, member: 80783&quot;]I just received NAC´s 1995 catalogue of the Friedrich Collection of more than 2400 Sestertii. And guess what: in the 1900 lots illustrated there (most of them not found on AC Search or elsewhere) I found a couple of more die matches to the specimens I showed in this thread.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here is an 8th specimen, again from the same obverse die, but a fifth (if I get it right) reverse die, which again illustrates that there usually were a handful of reverse dies produced for each obverse die due to the faster wearing down of the later:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]964490[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Here are two Sestertii of different reverse types, but from the same obverse die as my coin (and the other recorded specimens of RIC 139):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]964494[/ATTACH]</p><p>RIC 121</p><p>[ATTACH=full]964492[/ATTACH]</p><p>RIC -</p><p><br /></p><p>This shows that Sestertius production during this time was so limited that one obverse die (the only one originally showing Macrinus with a medium beard) was not only used over several emissions (RIC 121 predates RIC 139 as the COS II is missing), but also for several reverse designs.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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