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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3981731, member: 75937&quot;]I pulled out RIC3 this morning, and I note that Mattingly and Sydenham* discuss it there and I wonder if Mattingly simply felt it would be redundant to mention it in his introduction to BMCRE4. Here&#039;s the discussion in RIC3:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1048291[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>As to it being scarce, I think it&#039;s the bust variety that makes it scarce. Look closely at the bust on your coin. Yours has the laureate and draped bust. That makes it RIC 997, not 998:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1048292[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This appears to be less common than the laureate head variety if you look at numbers sold on acsearchinfo. Only <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Aurelius+997+sestertius&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Aurelius+997+sestertius&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">two examples</a> of 997 appear on a search, in contrast to <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Aurelius+998+sestertius&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Aurelius+998+sestertius&amp;category=1-2&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;images=1&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;order=0&amp;currency=usd&amp;company=" rel="nofollow">15 examples of 998</a> (the Bertolami one is misidentified and is the same coin that appears in the 997 search). The British Museum has one <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1197557&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Aurelius+1397&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1197557&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Aurelius+1397&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">example of your coin</a> in their collection (BMCRE 1397), but two examples with a laureate head, BMCRE <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3172124&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Aurelius+sestertius+998&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=3172124&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Aurelius+sestertius+998&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">1395</a> and <a href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1197558&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Aurelius+sestertius+998&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://research.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1197558&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Aurelius+sestertius+998&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">1396</a>, for what that&#039;s worth.</p><p><br /></p><p>~~~</p><p><br /></p><p>*Mattingly, Harold; Sydenham, Edward A, <i>The Roman imperial coinage, vol. 3: Antoninus Pius to Commodus</i>, London, Spink, 1930, p. 203.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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