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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3096050, member: 75937&quot;]It&#039;s a fun exercise to identify which dies were used to strike the coin. <a href="https://www.scribd.com/document/265871515/The-coinage-of-Didius-Julianus-and-his-family-A-M-Woodward" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.scribd.com/document/265871515/The-coinage-of-Didius-Julianus-and-his-family-A-M-Woodward" rel="nofollow">Woodward&#039;s article</a> is still considered the definitive work on this, though it&#039;s unfortunate that not all dies described are illustrated in the plates. Woodward often refers to coins in the British Museum Collection, which are searchable. Between the illustrations, descriptions, and the <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=Scantilla+sestertius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx?searchText=Scantilla+sestertius" rel="nofollow">BMCRE references</a>, I suspect you&#039;ll be able to identify the die pairs with which your two coins were struck.</p><p><br /></p><p>The position of the breaks and the presence or absence of dots between the words in the obverse inscriptions&nbsp; is significant and can help with die identification.</p><p><br /></p><p>Doing this, for example, allowed me to identify the dies used to strike these sestertii, definitively proving that they were not tooled/faked from Julia Domna coins with similar reverse types:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]782401[/ATTACH]</p><p>Manlia Scantilla, wife of Didius Julianus, Augusta, AD 193.</p><p>Roman Æ Sestertius; 28.8 mm, 22.62 g, 12 h.</p><p>Rome mint, AD 193.</p><p>Obv: MANLIA•SCAN-TILLA•AVG, draped bust right.</p><p>Rev: IVNO REGINA SC, Juno standing left, holding patera and scepter; to left, peacock at feet, standing left, head turned up.</p><p>Refs: RIC 18a; BMCRE 32-36; Cohen 6; RCV 6083; Woodward, <i>Didius</i>, dies 6/-; Banti 2.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]782648[/ATTACH]</p><p>Didia Clara, daughter of Didius Julianus and Manlia Scantilla, Augusta, AD 193</p><p>Roman Æ Sestertius; 30.5 mm, 21.16 g, 6 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 193.</p><p>Obv: DIDIA•CLA-RA•AVG, bare-headed and draped bust right.</p><p>Rev: HILAR TEMPOR SC, Hilaritas standing, head left, holding palm branch and cornucopiae.</p><p>Refs: RIC 20; BMCRE 38-41; Cohen 4; RCV 6087; Woodward, <i>Didius</i>, dies 3/H; Banti 1.</p><p>Note: Reverse die-match to BMCRE 41:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]782404[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I believe our two Didia Clara coins were struck from the same reverse dies, [USER=75936]@Greg Heinrich[/USER] , though quite different obverse dies.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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