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Message:: [QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 6542053, member: 89514"]An interesting observation that Faustina's hair is shown differently on the left-facing bust than on her right-facing busts! A left-facing, lifetime middle bronze of Faustina was shown by Adrianus on Forum in Oct. 2012, unfortunately too worn to show the coiffure details clearly. See his picture below. In your specimen list above, no. 5 reported by Cohen was probably the same coin as no. 2 acquired by the BM in 1845. Cohen should have seen this BM coin, since he had visited the museum to collect material for his catalogue before publishing the first volume of his first edition in 1859; see his list of sources in the preface to that volume, p. VIII. Now Cohen generally acknowledged BM coins that he described with the designation "Musée Britannique" or the letter "B", and similarly Vienna coins with "Musée de Vienne" or "V"; but on p. IX of his preface he admits that for less important BM and Vienna coins he had sometimes omitted these indications of source, "in order not to overload the work with citations." I suspect also a certain reluctance on his part[ATTACH=full]1262139[/ATTACH] to credit the BM and Vienna with possessing coins that were missing in the Paris collection![/QUOTE]