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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6488389, member: 19463"]I am very much in agreement with Donna's viewpoint on this matter. At Alexandria, the two each have a date reflecting the fact that Vabalathus had been in power a few years before Aurelian came along. Year four is on the obverse and year one is the reverse. I do not have the E/B version. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1259147[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I'm not overly fond of the reverse varieties of the antoniniani in my collection but there is more originality in the obverses. </p><p>Big chest</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1259150[/ATTACH]</p><p>Long neck left</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1259152[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>My favorite Aurelian has a lion in exergue pushing the XXI into the left field.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1259151[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>While my criticisms of RIC are many, this has to be one of the greatest. RIC 62, volume V page 272 includes ten officinae with letters in exergue, ten with XXI in exergue and officinae in right field, seven officinae with the letter before XXI in exergue, and seven with XXI in left field, officinae in right field and lion in exergue. That means a complete set of RIC 62 would require 34 coins. I don't expect RIC to list each officina separately but ignoring my lion is simply not acceptable. Yes, there is an online update to half of RIC V but the book version is IMHO the volume most in need of revision. Come to think of it, most volumes seriously show their age and the recent updates seem to cover only part of their volume making a complete set of the latest versions available is many more books that the advertised ten volumes. I suspect no one now alive will see the update of each volume which means that the books issued today will be a century old when the last volume is issued. The era of books on paper may be over.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 6488389, member: 19463"]I am very much in agreement with Donna's viewpoint on this matter. At Alexandria, the two each have a date reflecting the fact that Vabalathus had been in power a few years before Aurelian came along. Year four is on the obverse and year one is the reverse. I do not have the E/B version. [ATTACH=full]1259147[/ATTACH] I'm not overly fond of the reverse varieties of the antoniniani in my collection but there is more originality in the obverses. Big chest [ATTACH=full]1259150[/ATTACH] Long neck left [ATTACH=full]1259152[/ATTACH] My favorite Aurelian has a lion in exergue pushing the XXI into the left field. [ATTACH=full]1259151[/ATTACH] While my criticisms of RIC are many, this has to be one of the greatest. RIC 62, volume V page 272 includes ten officinae with letters in exergue, ten with XXI in exergue and officinae in right field, seven officinae with the letter before XXI in exergue, and seven with XXI in left field, officinae in right field and lion in exergue. That means a complete set of RIC 62 would require 34 coins. I don't expect RIC to list each officina separately but ignoring my lion is simply not acceptable. Yes, there is an online update to half of RIC V but the book version is IMHO the volume most in need of revision. Come to think of it, most volumes seriously show their age and the recent updates seem to cover only part of their volume making a complete set of the latest versions available is many more books that the advertised ten volumes. I suspect no one now alive will see the update of each volume which means that the books issued today will be a century old when the last volume is issued. The era of books on paper may be over.[/QUOTE]
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