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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;akeady, post: 8265407, member: 83175&quot;]Wildwinds got the main reference right - RIC 684.&nbsp;&nbsp; The rest isn&#039;t right, though.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is Sear 2306 - it still references the old RIC II, so RIC 84 = BMC 146 = RSC 390 - but this is the PONTIF MAXIM reverse (as per previous post):</p><p><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-r8ize7c8_jaPmOnzlrW4AIcBHULslAuLjoh6ixGEsMCuBPRi4Q0aXwbbNRXQK78cLA9nSizQ4tNTnGbkUPjP-o8Em2J_bYXzfsEcHnvxkLEYdzRPc5yD1nvqGXWiwVMleVFKxoWw0MnEgg8g-ZF-Z7x_dpsNn-7RWZ5lGioedHJVa7D66CWw_FF9i5IzuDvMEZwW2Zr1Tb82Zv1LlITKiNM-On3XnOZBqta1hU4stB_cdbTZNTG_Xb7j1j_juqtrSU-1ZmdSFnToC-pjW74w3PNOUphanmOcGawnv7QTZWFeWZsuNkREt56Brv_BcWUqluYKiecRKc8CqOjGTP-JUKk-14bdq19n-n_L9U3EUPy1Zor6xkYw8kpoB-crvrDNPgrByQiCQfg2wP8gFzsueT9jLPzSqw5swe219ZeYv8_DaIBobjyiDqcDAOAHS6lVwj9Ihnb7Pu1iLU5bn92ynTVfTXZSAlPtiXlv9h5gE2K4O8nqHPfBxN-Bx_GeohrGGoEu1MBBwfcrLFacIEYwjlhjncocdEnPXH7a1c0Rnt82BsDEfDYChTN4oladASjSTHvmy2ktL64fvfEPWZXvWlBiTwmzrcev_2hZXdvkKSm2JmOib2G7ujnnG-c06nNtB9IllpgG7GfS3D4y0ClYdr6whfm1Q7m8VEqSY4DynPFceyyddrEePhFR8qsyCDUczJUUwiSrSi1bp24XjCpnyBzKDOiZ5h1I-s6CNETpBcIkOcOvsOQDSLurzfxhbM=w1350-h1830-no?authuser=0" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Sear doesn&#039;t list your coin (he does list the COS V reverse, but with a longer version of the obverse legend).</p><p><br /></p><p>Wildwinds has a lot of errors.&nbsp;&nbsp; But hey, any time I look through my own coins, I find mis-attributions and typos too!</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, RIC (and BMC to a lesser extent as it&#039;s older) is the primary reference and they got that right!</p><p><br /></p><p>OCRE <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/results</a> for Imperial coins</p><p>&amp; CRRO <a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/results" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/results" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/crro/results</a> for Republican coins</p><p><br /></p><p>are very useful as online versions of RIC and Crawford respectively and have good search options.</p><p><br /></p><p>They use examples from museums and there are sometimes mistakes there too, but the descriptions are taken from the references, so should be correct.</p><p><br /></p><p>ATB,</p><p>Aidan.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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