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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2920180, member: 19463&quot;]Mine is an as and shows a bearded Pius with draped head.&nbsp; I liked the coin when I bought it at a show but now regret the purchase.&nbsp; When I did not know I was missing VOTA in exergue, I thought it was full legend but when I got home and looked it up, I discovered my error.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]706923[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The footnote to BMCRE 1812 (your coin) quotes a Variant of reverse with &#039;Genius Senatus in place of Antoninus (?), Strack no, 1014.&#039;&nbsp; My question is how you tell the two apart.&nbsp; My as looks like Pius to me more than yours does but I have no idea what the coin in the BMCRE note looked like. The coin shown in the BMCRE plate 44,6 looks more youthful than I would call Pius.&nbsp; Each die is different.&nbsp; Such little things are easy to allow run-away imaginations.&nbsp;&nbsp; My as is BMCRE 1817 which is listed as a worn coin with &#039;(VOTA ? in ex.)&#039;&nbsp; so their example (not illustrated in the plates) is missing the VOTA just like mine is. We see things like this in the British Museum Catalogs since they are listings of an actual collection so we can see weights and die axes of their examples. My as is nearly a gram lighter than theirs and has the opposite axis alignment.&nbsp;&nbsp; Whether this information is significant to us is a question.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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