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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 3552383, member: 84744&quot;]IMO you&#039;ve definitely got a column there, made especially clear by the detail at its base (which isn&#039;t clear on the other examples you show).&nbsp; I&#039;ve been puzzling over columns recently in connection with this denarius of Antoninus Pius as Caesar:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]944067[/ATTACH] </p><p>It&#039;s also Concordia, and there&#039;s clearly no column on this coin.&nbsp; It&#039;s listed with column as RIC 449, and without as RIC 450.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a clear example with:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]944076[/ATTACH] </p><p>Here&#039;s another with (note the base):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]944077[/ATTACH] </p><p>Then there are intermediate cases, usually listed as RIC 449 (with column):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]944079[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]944082[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]944083[/ATTACH] </p><p>[ATTACH=full]944084[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I&#039;ve found only one other example where the column is completely absent, as on my coin, and it appears to be a reverse die match:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]944088[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On yours, the engravers normally left the column off, some engraved a hint of it, while a few made it in-your-face.&nbsp; Since the latter is rare the cataloguers didn&#039;t catch it.&nbsp; Mine is the opposite, where the engravers normally put in at least a hint of the column.&nbsp; I&#039;m not sure if this was misinterpreted by the cataloguers as the absence of a column in some cases,&nbsp; or if the cataloguers had access to a column-absent variety.&nbsp; I tend to think that RIC misinterpreted it (they say the column-absent variety is common, which it definitely isn&#039;t!), whereas BMCRE got it right (they just mention the column-absent variety in a footnote).</p><p><br /></p><p>Congrats!![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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