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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3542816, member: 85693"]An interesting discussion - I have no informed opinion about this, I just have a similar coin to the original post. I got it a few years ago when my attribution skills were even shakier than they are now. </p><p><br /></p><p>I typically use OCRE to figure these things out. When I just checked again and see that RIC 346b is incorrect - they list the obverse legend without the AVG - although the 25 examples that are legible show the AVG (OCRE has a lot of errors like this, I am coming to discover). <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.346B" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.346B" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.346B</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, here is mine - RIC 346b I think - </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941844[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><b>Faustina I (the Elder)</b></p><p><b>Wife of Antoninus Pius </b></p><p><b>(141-161 A.D.)</b></p><p>DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, bust right, draped / AETERNITAS,</p><p>Venus or Aeternitas standing rt. drawing veil & holding scepter</p><p>RIC 346b</p><p>(2.38 grams / 17 mm)</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Another oddity I noticed on OCRE is the listing for RIC 346A - only two examples, with the British Museum example sporting a on the obverse DIV<b>AE</b> - a legend variation I'd never seen before. Again, OCRE doesn't note this. Neither does BMCRE above - if I am reading it right (which I may not be). <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.346A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.346A" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.346A</a></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]941847[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 3542816, member: 85693"]An interesting discussion - I have no informed opinion about this, I just have a similar coin to the original post. I got it a few years ago when my attribution skills were even shakier than they are now. I typically use OCRE to figure these things out. When I just checked again and see that RIC 346b is incorrect - they list the obverse legend without the AVG - although the 25 examples that are legible show the AVG (OCRE has a lot of errors like this, I am coming to discover). [url]http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.346B[/url] Anyway, here is mine - RIC 346b I think - [ATTACH=full]941844[/ATTACH] [B]Faustina I (the Elder) Wife of Antoninus Pius (141-161 A.D.)[/B] DIVA AVG FAVSTINA, bust right, draped / AETERNITAS, Venus or Aeternitas standing rt. drawing veil & holding scepter RIC 346b (2.38 grams / 17 mm) Another oddity I noticed on OCRE is the listing for RIC 346A - only two examples, with the British Museum example sporting a on the obverse DIV[B]AE[/B] - a legend variation I'd never seen before. Again, OCRE doesn't note this. Neither does BMCRE above - if I am reading it right (which I may not be). [url]http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.346A[/url] [ATTACH=full]941847[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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