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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orange Julius, post: 3560065, member: 77226&quot;][USER=31620]@maridvnvm[/USER] Those are some great coins and great photography too! Lots of barbarians getting the spear there!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree that we shouldn&#039;t get too hung up on reference numbers. For this post I had just intended to highlight a type so that we could see lots of examples and appreciate the detail or condition differences.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, you do bring up an important question for some of us that do not own the references. What exactly is a RIC VIII Constantinople 82, or a LRBC II 2026 or a Sear V 18148? Not that it matters much but it may be of interest to some.</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not own RIC VIII but I can show some snippets of LRBC (Late Roman Bronze Coinage) and Sear V.</p><p><br /></p><p>LRBC II (Late Roman Bronze Coinage)</p><p>[ATTACH=full]946421[/ATTACH]</p><p>In LRBC, the defining characteristics are only the field and mint mark (the officina does not matter), the type and reverse legend, the horseman position (FH3 for reaching, FH4 for clutching the horse&#039;s neck), the issuer (in this case Cs = Constantius II), the legend (here 1 which is DN CONSTAN-TIVS PF AVG), and the bust (which is B, draped with a pearled diadem). No further detail is described for the horseman. RIC 82 corresponds to 2026.</p><p><br /></p><p>Sear V</p><p>[ATTACH=full]946424[/ATTACH]</p><p>In Sear, it is much the same as LBRC. The description is more self-explanatory here so I will not go through it as I did above. But here as well, there is no description of the horseman himself. In fact, Sear does not differentiate by the horseman&#039;s position as both RIC 81 (clutching the horse) and RIC 82 (reaching back toward the soldier) are given the same reference number. Additionally, the star at the end of the mint mark does not call for a different reference number here.</p><p><br /></p><p>I identified my coin with Dane&#039;s spreadsheets so I am not exactly certain of how it is actually listed and how the horseman is described. If anyone is willing, I would like to see how exactly this coin is listed in RIC VIII.</p><p><br /></p><p>After all of this bucketing and defining... these are hand made coins where each die was different. As long as you can place it in the right chronology and understand what is depicted... the rest of the details are just frosting on the cake. Cool coins everyone![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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