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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 4244914, member: 75937"]I find it interesting that the two variants of this sestertius are given separate numbers in RIC but the denarius versions are given the same number. I discussed this in an <a href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/when-is-a-variant-not-just-a-variant-faustina-ii-ceres-seated-denarii.313826/" class="internalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cointalk.com/threads/when-is-a-variant-not-just-a-variant-faustina-ii-ceres-seated-denarii.313826/">earlier thread</a>. Yours is RIC 1620, with an earlier hairstyle with a double strand of pearls as well as a short, transverse scepter. RIC does not comment on the hairstyle, but I note that the late hairstyle is found on RIC 1621 and the earlier on 1620. Here's the listing in RIC: [ATTACH=full]1083637[/ATTACH] I don't have an example of either of these in my collection, but the British Museum does. Here are their examples of 1620, BMCRE3 895 and 896: [ATTACH=full]1083638[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]1083639[/ATTACH] And here is their example of RIC 1921, BMCRE3 894: [ATTACH=full]1083640[/ATTACH] Here are the denarius versions of the coins from my collection: Earlier issue (despite having the same RIC number):[ATTACH=full]1083641[/ATTACH] Later issue: [ATTACH=full]1083642[/ATTACH] We know this is the later hairstyle, because that's the coiffure she has on her posthumous issues: [ATTACH=full]1083650[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1083653[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]