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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3543345, member: 88829&quot;]Actually, the version with the dative ending is listed in <i>BMCRE</i> as #487, under the header &quot;EXCEPTIONAL OBVERSE&quot;.&nbsp; I do not find a corresponding entry in RIC for this.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>To be clear did you mean 252/253 (coins of Antoninus Pius) or 352/353?&nbsp; I assume you meant the latter.&nbsp; While I agree that Mattingly&#039;s description of BMC 352 does not match the BMC pic of 352, neither do I find anything anywhere that corresponds to what it would look like if it were to be found at all. Moreover, I do not find any examples of the &quot;facing head left&quot; reverse figure that fusses with the veil.&nbsp; This leads me to suspect that continuing the ditto marks down to the 352 entry was the culprit which caused a false entry at that point and overlooked the listing of the later obverse inscription variety with this reverse.&nbsp; However, I have one problem with correlating the #280 reverse with that of #352; namely that the latter in the pic from the BMC website does not appear to have a bare midriff &quot;sown with stars.&quot; Minor detail that may or may not have had an impact on the identification of the deity (especially if Pudicitia was meant).&nbsp; Among the coins with the dative ending I see that the example shown above by Marsyas Mike is not clear on that point, but the example offered by Rauch in 2003 is very clear with its stars:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]941993[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This reverse is in the style associated with the earlier obverse type.&nbsp; Perhaps it was an intermediate stage. And as long as we&#039;re at it, another variety which neither RIC nor BMCRE managed to list is the obverse with left-facing bust:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]941995[/ATTACH]</p><p>This should have followed 353 as obverse type c as another * entry.&nbsp; Note the rearrangement of the shorter/later obverse inscription.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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