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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3552401, member: 75937&quot;]I just heard from Curtis Clay at Harlan J. Berk about this! He was kind enough to reply to my inquiry and writes:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><blockquote><p>I spent about an hour on you coin, checking for it in various places, finding the Timeline catalogue online so I could print out the picture (giving the lot number would have helped!), then writing the variant into my BMC.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was about to report to you that it might indeed be a new variety, when it occurred to me to check Strack, the best catalogue for the Roman coins of Pius, and indeed, Strack did note your variant with column, cat. no. 1328, specimens in Munich, Naples, Milan, and St. Petersburg.</p><p><br /></p><p>It was a fault of Mattingly’s to omit this variety, since his BMC came out in 1940, three years after Strack had published his vol. III on Pius. So Mattingly should have footnoted the variety in BMC, citing Strack.</p><p><br /></p><p>That’s a drapery tuck, not a volute, above the column, which as you correctly notice is omitted on the Grün specimen, a mere engraver’s variant I would say. Note that the drapery tuck is also depicted on the [Bertolami specimen, though it omits] the column.</p></blockquote><p><br /></p><p>Mystery solved and another attribution in the books![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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