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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3616670, member: 75937&quot;]Before buying any sestertius of Didius Julianus or his family, it&#039;s important 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 and there are a few that he was unaware of when he wrote the article. 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>, one should be able to identify the die pairs with which your coin was 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 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 this sestertius, definitively proving that it is genuine:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/manlia-scantilla-ivno-regina-sestertius-jpg.782401/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></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>Here is the obverse of my coin compared to the plate in Woodward&#039;s article:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]969000[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>And note that my coin is a double die match to this genuine example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]969004[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4955664" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4955664" rel="nofollow">Numismatica Ars Classica, Auction 106, lot 1574</a>, May 9, 2018. Ex Stack’s December 2001, 223 and Triton IX, 2006, 1503 sales. From the J. F. Sullivan collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>Fakes abound with this issue and its important to research these thoroughly before spending several hundred dollars for a genuine one.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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