Went in a local coin show yesterday. As usual here, only one dealer specialized in ancients...Also my budget was very low with the 2 kids back in college a month ago. But I had to bring back a little souvenir. I found this one in the « cheap pile ». Making a few research home for the attribution, I discovered it was my first RIC 1 ! Not very exciting for most of long time collectors, but anyway for me in the kingdom of poverty it made my day... Show me your RIC 1 coins please ! Elagabalus antoninianus 218 AD RIC I. RSC 125 22 mm 4.68 g IMP CAES M AVR ANTONINVS AVG / PM TRP COS PP Roma seated with Victory and sceptre
Nice! I don't have a RIC 1... how about an Emmett 1? It's hideous, so avert your eyes if you have a delicate constitution . EGYPT, Alexandria. Augustus 80 drachmai (diobol); 26 mm, 14.2 gm First series, struck circa 30-28 BC Obv: bare head right Rev: eagle standing left on thunderbolt; cornucopia to left, Π to right Ref: Emmett 1; RPC I 5001
RIC 1 (and Cohen 2! ): DIDIUS JULIANUS AR Denarius. 2.42g, 18.8mm. Rome mint, 28th March – 1st June AD 193. RIC 1; Cohen 2. O: IMP CAES M DID IVLIAN AVG, laureate head right. R: CONCORD MILIT, Concordia standing facing, head turned left, holding aquila and signum.
Congratulations on hitting RIC 1. A while back I was somewhat thrilled to hit an RIC 2. Still waiting for a No. 1, however. Gordian III Antoninianus (238-239 A.D.) Rome Mint (1st issue, 2nd Officina) IMP CAES M ANT GORDIANVS AVG, radiate bust right / IOVI CONSERVATORI Jupiter standing with scepter & thunderbolt, Gordian left w. attributes of Spes. RIC 2; Cohen 105 (3.83 grams / 20 mm)
That’s a nice find - I’d be excited to find a RIC 1 too. An interesting collecting path would be only collecting #1’s of the major catalogue references. -d
Septimius Severus RIC 1 FIDEI LEG TRP COS Most rulers started off with an RIC 1 but some missed out by sharing a number system with a co-ruler. Some even have a #1 in more than one volume when their long reign did not all fit in one. Later volumes of RIC started over with RIC 1 for each mint so a ruler could have a dozen different coins and each be RIC 1. However some of those #1's would be gold or rare so it is not easy to throw together a set of all #1 coins. RIC authors were not consistent with earlier volumes. My Septimius above is a silver denarius but RIC 1 was also applied to the gold aureus of the same design. The fact that more volumes listed gold first really will cut down on the number of RIC 1 coins I ever can own.
