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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4229666, member: 75937&quot;]This one just arrived in the mail from the latest Leu web auction. When I purchased it, I noticed that Mattingly* notes a dot after the obverse inscription on several bronzes (sestertii and asses) in the British Museum from this issue. On one coin, a dot also appears after AVGVSTA (BMCRE 1428). The purpose of this dot is unknown and it is not uniformly present, even on coins of the same type. I have a dupondius and an as of this issue with the same reverse design, but neither of them have a dot after the obverse inscription.</p><p><br /></p><p>Any thoughts? Please feel free to post anything relevant.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081930[/ATTACH] </p><p>Faustina I, AD 138-140.</p><p>Roman orichalcum sestertius, 26.91 g, 32.3 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 140.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA •, veiled and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: AETERNITAS S C, Providentia standing front, head left, holding globe and scepter.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1108b; BMCRE 1421; Cohen --; Strack 1230; RCV --; Dinsdale 018190.</p><p><br /></p><p>The dot after the obverse inscription is interesting. It&#039;s present also on the &quot;mirror image&quot; reverse type in the British Museum (BMCRE 1418):</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/faustina-sr-aeternitas-providentia-scepter-and-globe-sestertius-veiled-bust-bmc-1418-jpg.1072977/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>And also on the Dinsdale plate coin (Numismatica Ars Classica, May 2007).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1081931[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Moreover, the BMC version of my coin has the legend broken as DIVA AVGVS-TA FAVSTINA but still has a dot.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/00671579_001_l-jpg.1072994/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>However, the dot is not present in two of the three <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s4609.t.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/sear5/s4609.t.html" rel="nofollow">examples of my coin at Wildwinds</a>. </p><p><br /></p><p>*Mattingly, Harold, <i>Coins of the Roman Empire in the British Museum, vol. IV: Antoninus Pius to Commodus. Introduction, indexes and plates. </i>London, BMP, 1968.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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