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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 5294116, member: 89514&quot;]Regarding the two MATER DEVM seated types with which Roman Collector started this thread: yes, the scepter makes a difference!</p><p><br /></p><p>From my unpublished B.Litt. thesis of 1972, p. 128:</p><p><br /></p><p>The MATER DEVM type, on denarii as on the other denominations, shows Cybele seated left <i>without a sceptre</i>; the same type with sceptre was used again some years later, and is very common on denarii with the new spread fabric of after 198 and a later portrait, as BMCRE V, pl. 28.7; I know a couple of corresponding asses, with sceptre, but no sestertii or aurei.</p><p><br /></p><p>Note 1: P.V. Hill, Coinage of Sept. Sev., no. 352-6 and 512-24, correctly distinguishes the two varieties; but he dates the first variety to 198, three years too late, and he quotes sestertii and aurei for the second variety, which do not appear to exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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