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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3202258, member: 75937&quot;]A good line drawing can be as good as a photo for die-matching!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829019[/ATTACH]</p><p>Germanicus, 15 BC - AD 19.</p><p>Roman Æ as, 11.18 g, 27.5 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome, issued under Caligula, AD 40-41.</p><p>Obv: GERMANICVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N, bare-head of Germanicus, left.</p><p>Rev: C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG P M TR P IIII P P around large SC.</p><p>Refs: RIC 50; BMCRE 74-78; Cohen 4; RCV 1822; CBN 123.</p><p>Note: Reverse die-match to Henry Cohen, <i>Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l&#039;Empire Romain, Tome I</i>, Paris, 1880, page 225, no. 4.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the listing in Cohen, which is thankfully illustrated:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829028[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I do not believe the obverse is a die-match, but I&#039;m quite confident the reverse is, because the letters in the inscription are absolutely superimposable:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]829029[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I suspect the coin has been subjected to some smoothing, resulting in the loss of the centration dot where the die-engraver used a compass to lay out the circle in which the design was placed and the compass point left an indentation in the die.</p><p><br /></p><p>Post anything you feel is relevant![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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