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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 3613037, member: 85693&quot;]I just got a new sestertius from eBay and while attributing it, I came across what I think might be my first die match...or not.&nbsp;&nbsp; And so, I try my first Coin Talk poll. </p><p><br /></p><p>It is, from what I can tell, fairly scarce, Marcus Aurelius as Caesar, Fortuna reverse, TRPOT XI, RIC 1338A.&nbsp; I say &quot;scarce&quot; because I had trouble finding online examples (acsearch, Coin Archives, vcoins, etc.).&nbsp; Here is my example:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]967630[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is what I think is an obverse die match (the reverses were not matches - not even close).&nbsp; This is from OCRE, who listed 2 examples for this.&nbsp; The match is British Museum R.13854</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1338A" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1338A" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.ant.1338A</a></p><p><br /></p><p>British Museum example is on the left, mine is on the right:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]967629[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I had one other question about this issue - mine has &quot;slight&quot; drapery left and right.&nbsp; This seems to be the case on about half the RIC 1338A examples that I found.&nbsp; The others have a completely bare bust.&nbsp; There is a fully-draped version RIC 1338B - the drapery is very obvious and not &quot;slight.&quot;&nbsp; I was just wondering if RIC 1338A was divided further between &quot;no drapery&quot; and &quot;slight&quot;?&nbsp; OCRE doesn&#039;t make the distinction - the second example in the link above has no drapery (also British Museum). </p><p><br /></p><p>So does anybody think I have a die match?&nbsp; Or am I foolin&#039; myself?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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