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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 5176804, member: 89514"]Aestimare,</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 33, obv. leg. 3: I strongly suspect this is just a misread or misprinted obv. leg. 5.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 17, obv. leg. 3: I'll believe in this variant when I see an actual specimen, not before. You illustrate one above, but as you write it is just an "imaginary coin", fabricated by joining the obv. picture of your RIC 16-3 with the rev. picture of your RIC 17-5.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 16, obv. leg. 3: This coin indeed exists, I was forgetting about it. You illustrate your specimen above. BMC 92-93 has two specimens, though neither is illustrated in the plates. Eauze hoard 296 contained three specimens, one illustrated on pl. 19.</p><p><br /></p><p>But would it help much if a die study of these IMP ANTONINVS AVG denarii did or didn't show shared rev. dies with the corresponding Rome-mint denarii bearing Elagabalus' long IMP CAES obv. legend? One couldn't compare rev. dies with Rome-mint denarii showing Elagabalus' next obv. legend, IMP CAES ANTONINVS AVG, for these oddly appear not to exist, though there are corresponding Rome-mint antoniniani with the TR P II Roma-seated rev. type and that obv. legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>Would the presence or absence of such die links help with the problem of how to insert the IMP ANTONINVS AVG type sequence into the Rome-mint type sequence, which clearly both began earlier and ended later? Or would it affect the argument that the IMP ANTONINVS AVG coins seem to have been produced by a branch mint, since none of their types were also struck in bronze or gold?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 5176804, member: 89514"]Aestimare, RIC 33, obv. leg. 3: I strongly suspect this is just a misread or misprinted obv. leg. 5. RIC 17, obv. leg. 3: I'll believe in this variant when I see an actual specimen, not before. You illustrate one above, but as you write it is just an "imaginary coin", fabricated by joining the obv. picture of your RIC 16-3 with the rev. picture of your RIC 17-5. RIC 16, obv. leg. 3: This coin indeed exists, I was forgetting about it. You illustrate your specimen above. BMC 92-93 has two specimens, though neither is illustrated in the plates. Eauze hoard 296 contained three specimens, one illustrated on pl. 19. But would it help much if a die study of these IMP ANTONINVS AVG denarii did or didn't show shared rev. dies with the corresponding Rome-mint denarii bearing Elagabalus' long IMP CAES obv. legend? One couldn't compare rev. dies with Rome-mint denarii showing Elagabalus' next obv. legend, IMP CAES ANTONINVS AVG, for these oddly appear not to exist, though there are corresponding Rome-mint antoniniani with the TR P II Roma-seated rev. type and that obv. legend. Would the presence or absence of such die links help with the problem of how to insert the IMP ANTONINVS AVG type sequence into the Rome-mint type sequence, which clearly both began earlier and ended later? Or would it affect the argument that the IMP ANTONINVS AVG coins seem to have been produced by a branch mint, since none of their types were also struck in bronze or gold?[/QUOTE]
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