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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3871725, member: 19463"]I erred on this thinking the HADR placed the coin early. This was from a series in 151-152. I should have realized the obverse legend included AVG which the early ones did not and should have seen the trace of the TRANQ in exergue separating the coin from others with different words there. I had a bad day.</p><p><br /></p><p>In this case the ID is based on the TRANQ in exergue. Without that, you might argue for other women with rudders but I tend to accept labels when provided unless the label is applied to several different figures like the Septimius Severus Fortuna Reduci legend coins with Fortuna, Pax and Hilaritas versions whe I would label it 'Fortuna as Pax' etc..</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I hope not because I do not support illegal copies of copyrighted books. You know I find ERIC hard to use and useless to me. I would recommend picking up Seaby's Roman Silver Coins if you see it cheap. The problem with these is there are old books with line drawings that predate some standard references (like Crawford) so you need to check to see if the ones you find have references to books you want. None will reference the new RIC 1 and 2 editions. Even the oldest ones will help you figure out what exists to some degree but the books will not thrill those interested in up to date catalog numbers. The older I get, the less I care about numbers and the less inclined I am to buy books with new numbering systems.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 3871725, member: 19463"]I erred on this thinking the HADR placed the coin early. This was from a series in 151-152. I should have realized the obverse legend included AVG which the early ones did not and should have seen the trace of the TRANQ in exergue separating the coin from others with different words there. I had a bad day. In this case the ID is based on the TRANQ in exergue. Without that, you might argue for other women with rudders but I tend to accept labels when provided unless the label is applied to several different figures like the Septimius Severus Fortuna Reduci legend coins with Fortuna, Pax and Hilaritas versions whe I would label it 'Fortuna as Pax' etc.. I hope not because I do not support illegal copies of copyrighted books. You know I find ERIC hard to use and useless to me. I would recommend picking up Seaby's Roman Silver Coins if you see it cheap. The problem with these is there are old books with line drawings that predate some standard references (like Crawford) so you need to check to see if the ones you find have references to books you want. None will reference the new RIC 1 and 2 editions. Even the oldest ones will help you figure out what exists to some degree but the books will not thrill those interested in up to date catalog numbers. The older I get, the less I care about numbers and the less inclined I am to buy books with new numbering systems.[/QUOTE]
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