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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8211832, member: 19463&quot;]Interesting coin!&nbsp; Compare it to mine below.&nbsp; When I say &#039;compare&#039; I am not talking about grade or things that drive sales in the marketplace but what is shown on the coin.&nbsp; Donna is 100% right about Virtus.&nbsp; My coin shows the standard female personification with bare breast.&nbsp; Yours shows a bearded man which I would prefer we call &#039;soldier&#039; but might accept &#039;Mars&#039; in full military attire.&nbsp; My coin has the earlier obverse legend IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG which is termed &#039;1st issue&#039; and RIC 6.&nbsp; I believe RIC is just plain old wrong calling both of these figures by the same name.&nbsp; My coin does not show a figure in &#039;military dress&#039; but the female personification lightly clad in a way not at all appropriate for a human soldier with well executed fabric folds in her dress.&nbsp; Yours shows a soldier fully clad for battle.&nbsp; Note also the difference in the design of the vertical spears.&nbsp; Yours has barbs, mine does not.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>RIC is an old book (my copy is the one volume dated 1986 but there were earlier editions released in three parts).&nbsp; It could use updating in many ways.&nbsp; Sear is newer and was right in making this correction.&nbsp;&nbsp; I&#039;m posting this mostly to avoid wasting all my typing which turns out to be too slow to be of any real use here. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1440870[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Would someone like to explain to me why the change from the early legend and the later &#039;Pius&#039; one did not cause the scholars to upnumber their issue count?&nbsp; Both are listed as &#039;Third Issue&#039;.&nbsp; I realize they make this stuff up based on factors too lofty for mere collectors and use footnotes to admit guessing but a major change of obverse legend would seem worthy of a new issue number.&nbsp; Perhaps I am too hard on them considering the statement on page xxiii claiming this to be a &#039;product of 1940 accidentally delayed&#039; by &#039;the difficulties of the times&#039;.&nbsp; I suppose World War II could qualify as a difficult time.&nbsp; Today, we need a rewrite not another repackaging of old data.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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