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Message:: [QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 5185295, member: 84744"]( [USER=89970]@Fugio1[/USER] [USER=74282]@red_spork[/USER] ) I've seen a few of these go for big prices over the last few months, but I finally picked up an example today, 55 euros for a rather bargain-bin piece. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie80" alt=":shame:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />  I'm pretty sure it's a group 2 (fairly long visor splayed outward, tail hangs somewhat down, demarcation lines [very prominent!] at visor line tips, larger riders than group 1):[ATTACH=full]1213387[/ATTACH] I thought the lack of griffin tufts was a bit odd, but in perusing acsearch I have found a few either lacking them or where they're very faint and so could easily wear off on a well-loved example like mine.  Here's one from Bertolami a few years ago that, while not a die-match, was surely engraved by the same hand:[ATTACH=full]1213390[/ATTACH] I'm not sure which of the 2 subvarieties of group 2 mine is, though I would bet on the first (narrower head of Roma) illustrated as 44/5.3. Since it seems groups 2 and 5 come from one mint, while groups 1, 3, and 4 come from another (given die link evidence), now I would like to get a group 1 coin.  This is how the illness starts, isn't it?  EADS, Early Anonymous Denarius Syndrome?[/QUOTE]