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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3687967, member: 75937&quot;]Update: I have found five additional specimens of the middle bronze with the FAVSTINA AVGVSTA AVG PII F legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>One sold by <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=215880" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=215880" rel="nofollow">Busso Peus</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]988927[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One sold by <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4571552" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4571552" rel="nofollow">Bolaffi</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]988928[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>One sold by <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6016571" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=6016571" rel="nofollow">Saint Paul</a>, which is an obverse die-match to my coin:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]988931[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And one sold by <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5738872" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5738872" rel="nofollow">Timeline</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]988932[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And one misattributed to RIC 1405c at Wildwinds:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]988933[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Interestingly, I can find no examples online, such as at acsearchinfo, <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=Faustina+1405c" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=Faustina+1405c" rel="nofollow">OCRE</a>, <a href="http://www.coinproject.com/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.coinproject.com/" rel="nofollow">Coin Project</a>, or <a href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/faustina_II/i.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://wildwinds.com/coins/ric/faustina_II/i.html" rel="nofollow">Wildwinds</a> that have the FAVSTINA AVGVSTA AVG PII FIL obverse legend (RIC 1405c, C 211). The British Museum does not have a copy of my coin or of RIC 1405c/Cohen 211, but does mention in a note after the listing for the sestertius I posted in the OP, BMCRE 2194, that Cohen 210 and 211 have the longer legend ending in FIL.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]988941[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Similarly, RIC cites Cohen 211 in its listing for 1405c:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]988944[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]988949[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And here&#039;s Cohen&#039;s original listing for the sestertius (210) and the middle bronze (211). Note that the French national collection did not have an example of the middle bronze among its holdings at the time and that he cites a sale catalog (Moustier):</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]988946[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Because all of the examples of this middle bronze read FAVSTINA AVGVSTA AVG PII F, and none read ... PII FIL, I believe that Cohen erroneously transcribed the obverse legend of the coin sold by Moustier.</p><p><br /></p><p>In short, RIC 1405c and C 211 are in error and coins with the longer legend ending in PII FIL do not exist.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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