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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 3132174, member: 74968&quot;][USER=88829]@lrbguy[/USER] </p><p><br /></p><p>I had read about the veiled portraits. In fact Sear (RCV) 2000, places these issues as lifetime issues. Your 480/19 is listed as posthumous. I wonder if Sear mentions anything about the chronology in his book &quot;The History and Coinage of the Roman Imperators&quot;. I may have to order a copy to find out.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, this is not the whole story. In 1978 David Sear and Robert Loosely published the 3rd revised edition of Seaby&#039;s Roman Silver Coins. In the introduction to this edition he says that Crawford&#039;s RRC 1974 &quot;has necessitated a reappraisal of the chronology of this series&quot;. On page 107 the book reports that the issues of Maridianus were probably struck before the assassination. Obviously Sear must have changed his mind between 1978 and 2000. One more interesting fact about your coin. Apparently, again according to Sear (1978), &quot;This is the first occurrence of the complete title of the moneyer on a coin&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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