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<p>[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 6563992, member: 75937"]It looks the same as it did when it was sold in 1914. See below.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>At first -- before [USER=101607]@shanxi[/USER] posted the other examples while I was preparing this post -- I thought the coin to be unique. There were no other examples to be found at acsearchinfo when I searched for "Faustina 1624," but only this same exact coin from a <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7442737" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7442737" rel="nofollow">Kunker sale last year</a>. There are no examples illustrated at OCRE or at Wildwinds.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a great deal of confusion in the literature about this coin. The first mention of it is Cohen 40, and he describes it as "Ceres seated left on cista, holding two corn ears and lifting her robe with the left hand" (my translation). He cites the collection of M. Colin, not any of the museum collections to which he had access.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263346[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The next appearance of the coin is in the Charles Dupriez, Brussels (Auction 115bis), 20.4.1914, pl. 6, 391. Paul Dinsdale provides the photograph of the coin at the Dupriez auction.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263350[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This is clearly the exact same coin as in the OP. Its provenance is unknown, but it may well have been the example owned by M. Colin, as cited by Cohen, but this is merely conjecture.</p><p><br /></p><p>It makes its next appearance in RIC as 1624, but Mattingly and Seydenham cite Cohen and no other examples.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263351[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>It subsequently appears as a footnote to BMC 895 on p. 529.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263352[/ATTACH]</p><p>You'll note that Mattingly errs in his description of the reverse. Although he cites Cohen 40, he writes that Ceres "holds torch in r. hand."</p><p><br /></p><p>The next appearance is in MIR, where it causes a bunch of confusion. In Szaivert's concordance, he lists MIR 4 as corresponding to RIC 1624.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263353[/ATTACH]</p><p> </p><p>And, indeed, MIR 4 is the only possibility it could be because it was only issued as a sestertius (denomination 6).</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263354[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>But Szaivert errs when he says it has reverse type Ceres 3, which clearly describes a torch: "sitting left on cista with short torch and grain ears" (my translation."</p><p><br /></p><p> [ATTACH=full]1263358[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p> Szaivert cites the Dupriez auction as his source (see "4-6a").</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1263359[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>More follows ...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 6563992, member: 75937"]It looks the same as it did when it was sold in 1914. See below. At first -- before [USER=101607]@shanxi[/USER] posted the other examples while I was preparing this post -- I thought the coin to be unique. There were no other examples to be found at acsearchinfo when I searched for "Faustina 1624," but only this same exact coin from a [URL='https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7442737']Kunker sale last year[/URL]. There are no examples illustrated at OCRE or at Wildwinds. There is a great deal of confusion in the literature about this coin. The first mention of it is Cohen 40, and he describes it as "Ceres seated left on cista, holding two corn ears and lifting her robe with the left hand" (my translation). He cites the collection of M. Colin, not any of the museum collections to which he had access. [ATTACH=full]1263346[/ATTACH] The next appearance of the coin is in the Charles Dupriez, Brussels (Auction 115bis), 20.4.1914, pl. 6, 391. Paul Dinsdale provides the photograph of the coin at the Dupriez auction. [ATTACH=full]1263350[/ATTACH] This is clearly the exact same coin as in the OP. Its provenance is unknown, but it may well have been the example owned by M. Colin, as cited by Cohen, but this is merely conjecture. It makes its next appearance in RIC as 1624, but Mattingly and Seydenham cite Cohen and no other examples. [ATTACH=full]1263351[/ATTACH] It subsequently appears as a footnote to BMC 895 on p. 529. [ATTACH=full]1263352[/ATTACH] You'll note that Mattingly errs in his description of the reverse. Although he cites Cohen 40, he writes that Ceres "holds torch in r. hand." The next appearance is in MIR, where it causes a bunch of confusion. In Szaivert's concordance, he lists MIR 4 as corresponding to RIC 1624. [ATTACH=full]1263353[/ATTACH] And, indeed, MIR 4 is the only possibility it could be because it was only issued as a sestertius (denomination 6). [ATTACH=full]1263354[/ATTACH] But Szaivert errs when he says it has reverse type Ceres 3, which clearly describes a torch: "sitting left on cista with short torch and grain ears" (my translation." [ATTACH=full]1263358[/ATTACH] Szaivert cites the Dupriez auction as his source (see "4-6a"). [ATTACH=full]1263359[/ATTACH] More follows ...[/QUOTE]
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