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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 2868877, member: 88829&quot;]Great catch on that Balbinus!!&nbsp; There is a dark illustration in <i>RSC</i> vol III for RSC 27 but your suggestion answers everything, and more.&nbsp;&nbsp; The <i>BMC</i> catalog lists an aureus for Balbinus with this reverse type (#36) including the break pattern, then notes that it so closely matches <i>it may have been made from a cast of the denarius (#37).</i> [emphasis mine] Both coins are illustrated, but in those pics the break pattern is not quite the same, and on the aureus Victoria shows more wing on the right side (her left) than on the denarius.&nbsp; The coin of Julia Paula follows the reverse of the Balbinus denarius exactly in those and other details.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>There was apparently some tinkering with the coins of Balbinus, and someone muled an old Julia Paula obverse with one of his denarius reverses.&nbsp; So irregular it had to be an ancient fraud.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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