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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3131791, member: 88829&quot;]Hi Andrew.&nbsp; Congrats on securing a lifetime denarius.&nbsp; I know how important it is to you to have that, and I celebrate your success.&nbsp; May I request your assistance with a puzzle?&nbsp; The only significant references I have for the imperatorial period are Crawford and Sydenham.&nbsp; For the catalog Crawford is more devoted to the action of the moneyers than to the chronology of the output.&nbsp; But I don&#039;t have the resources to test that.&nbsp; I assume that you do.&nbsp; The table in Sydenham is even harder for me to penetrate.</p><p><br /></p><p>On your website you indicate that your new acquisition, which you identify as Crawford 480/5b (#2, pl LVII), was minted/issued in late February of 44 B.C.&nbsp; The only coin of JC I have is this:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]798832[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have been led to believe (don&#039;t ask me how) that this issue by Maridianus was perhaps one of the first just after the assassination in 44 BC.&nbsp; This would mean it was issued in late March or early April, not long after your coin.&nbsp; It is listed by Crawford as 480/19 and appears as plate coin #19.&nbsp; The fact that there are 14 listings by Crawford between the two, and 8 plate coins, raises for me a question about chronology.&nbsp;&nbsp; Based on all your references, how far apart are our two coins temporally?&nbsp; One just before the assassination and one just after, or a wider spread than that?&nbsp; What is the best reference for sorting that out, Grueber (<i>BMCRR</i>)?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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