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<p>[QUOTE="nicholasz219, post: 2823652, member: 75641"][USER=83206]@bsr045[/USER] : Yes, the left and right facing head or bust designations are basically the first few things that you look at on the obverse. Most references start with portrait types, left (typically more scarce for all emperors), right, type of headgear (radiate as you have was typically on antoninianii, where laureate was the gear for denarii), type of clothing (usually bare neck, draped, cuirassed [armored], mantled (fancy robe) and then anything the emperor may be holding in his hands. After you sort out the bust type then look for the obverse legend, reverse legend, type (who or what is on the reverse) followed by mint marks. </p><p><br /></p><p>So if this Probus interests you, you should definitely spend some time on Wildwinds getting a feel for the major types. Your CONCORDIA MILITVM is one of the majors. Dane (moderator at Wildwinds) has that Probus spreadsheet on cat bikes mentioned above which is very helpful. To use the spreadsheet, start on the left side and select emperor, then bust type, so on and so forth to the right. Then you should end up with an RIC attribution. If you are unsure, post here.</p><p><br /></p><p>Take a look at my Probus collection. It's a decent number of coins and yet I'll still never finish getting all of them in bronze and he only reigned six years.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=6322" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=6322" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=6322</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="nicholasz219, post: 2823652, member: 75641"][USER=83206]@bsr045[/USER] : Yes, the left and right facing head or bust designations are basically the first few things that you look at on the obverse. Most references start with portrait types, left (typically more scarce for all emperors), right, type of headgear (radiate as you have was typically on antoninianii, where laureate was the gear for denarii), type of clothing (usually bare neck, draped, cuirassed [armored], mantled (fancy robe) and then anything the emperor may be holding in his hands. After you sort out the bust type then look for the obverse legend, reverse legend, type (who or what is on the reverse) followed by mint marks. So if this Probus interests you, you should definitely spend some time on Wildwinds getting a feel for the major types. Your CONCORDIA MILITVM is one of the majors. Dane (moderator at Wildwinds) has that Probus spreadsheet on cat bikes mentioned above which is very helpful. To use the spreadsheet, start on the left side and select emperor, then bust type, so on and so forth to the right. Then you should end up with an RIC attribution. If you are unsure, post here. Take a look at my Probus collection. It's a decent number of coins and yet I'll still never finish getting all of them in bronze and he only reigned six years. [url]http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/thumbnails.php?album=6322[/url][/QUOTE]
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