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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 7832366, member: 75937&quot;]In the course of researching a forthcoming installment of Faustina Friday, I came across this coin, Pegasi Buy or Bid Sale 154, lot <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5185261" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=5185261" rel="nofollow">373</a>, 21 August 2018.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346063[/ATTACH]</p><p>The coin is ostensibly a middle bronze, RIC 1177, of Faustina I, with the Juno(?) standing left, raising right hand and holding scepter reverse type. But look at the bust. It clearly shows the empress wearing a crown of laurel leaves. Could this be a rare and previously unknown bust type?</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346064[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>This coin has been tooled. Egregiously.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is what it&#039;s supposed to look like. From the <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1939-0608-18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1939-0608-18" rel="nofollow">British Museum collection</a>:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1346065[/ATTACH]</p><p>It&#039;s a real shame that coin has been tooled. The coin is very scarce, with perhaps as few as a dozen known specimens.* It didn&#039;t have to be tooled to make it rare; it already was one of the few outside of museum collections and now it&#039;s ruined. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie3" alt=":(" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p><i>Your comments and thoughts are encouraged. Do you know of other examples of rare coins ruined by tooling?</i></p><p><br /></p><p>*I have catalogued the following: Strack cites specimens in Vienna, Munich, Rome, and the Vatican. The British Museum has <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1937-1006-12" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1937-1006-12" rel="nofollow">two</a> <a href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1939-0608-18" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/C_1939-0608-18" rel="nofollow">specimens</a>. OCRE cites <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1177_as" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1177_as" rel="nofollow">one specimen in Freiburg</a>. RIC cites A.S.F.N. 1885, p. 206. An acsearchinfo search yields only the Pegasi coin depicted above. And then there&#039;s one in the [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] collection.<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie2" alt=";)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> (I think the Wildwinds specimen is incorrectly attributed).[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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