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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 8290229, member: 19463&quot;]I works the other way also.&nbsp; In fact, some sellers make the assumption that anything hard to ID properly must be the expensive one.&nbsp; The obverse of this AE28 of Diocaesarea, Cilicia, clearly reads ANNIA ΦAVCTINA but the portrait should have made it obvious that we were dealing with the first lady of that name whom we call Faustina II but could just as well been labeled Annia Faustina (since that was her name) potentially making her great granddaughter (the more expensive wife of Elagabalus) &quot;Annia Faustina II&quot;.&nbsp; I bought this one in 1998 correctly identified but I have seen the type since &#039;upgraded&#039; through misidentification based on the 1993 catalog of the French National Collection. The correct ID is now universal with the sort of dealers we all should be favoring but you may find the mistake still from the flea market crowd and dreamers.</p><p>Note several listings from acsearch that includes reference to the incorrect ID &quot;SNG BN 874-5 (as Annia Faustina)&quot;. I find it interesting that a few of these dealers quote the reference but omit mention of the error. </p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=annia+diocaesarea&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=0" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=annia+diocaesarea&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=0" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=annia+diocaesarea&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=0</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1465328[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Does anyone have this book and could check what the Cilicia volume says about the coin?</p><p><a href="https://bid.numislit.com/lots/view/1-1JZV4J/sng-france-2-5" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://bid.numislit.com/lots/view/1-1JZV4J/sng-france-2-5" rel="nofollow">https://bid.numislit.com/lots/view/1-1JZV4J/sng-france-2-5</a></p><p><br /></p><p>The history of numismatics is filled with misattributions some of which leave us today just wondering what they were thinking.&nbsp; Poster child for this sort of thing has to be the medieval belief that the coins of Rhodes with radiate head of Helios depicted Christ wearing a crown of thorns.&nbsp; I wonder which of our current theories will seem hilarious to scholars of the next century.&nbsp;&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1465332[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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