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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;The Meat man, post: 25192672, member: 135271&quot;]You are correct - it is RIC III 259. The legends match. It seems that the RIC authors didn&#039;t differentiate between the various shield decorations, but yours appears to match this design, described by HJB thus:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7903762" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7903762" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=7903762</a></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1604442[/ATTACH] </p><p><i>Marcus Aurelius. Denarius; Marcus Aurelius; 161-180 AD, Rome, 172 AD, Denarius, 3.39g. BM-557, C-280, RIC-259. Obv: M ANTONINVS - AVG TR P XXVI Head laureate r. Rx: IMP - V - I - COS III Roma seated l. above round shield ornamented with Medusa head, holding Victory and spear.. EF</i></p><p><i>($350)</i></p><p><br /></p><p>Looking more closely, it looks like yours might actually be a reverse die match to the Berk coin ?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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