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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 7831368, member: 110350&quot;]Fortunately, the various &quot;subtypes&quot; of RIC X 1287 (all depending on the slightly different bends in and positions of the captives&#039; legs!) are still all under the one number, 1287. Inconsistently, though, the author of RIC X gave separate numbers to RIC X 1321, 1323, 1326, and 1328 -- all of them Honorius solidi from Ravenna with the exact same basic design as 1287, albeit minted later in his reign and all supposedly having &quot;round&quot; as opposed to &quot;slender&quot; side portraits -- based on similar minor distinctions in the bends in and position of the captives&#039; legs, along with characterizations of Honorius&#039;s stance on the reverse as &quot;relaxed,&quot; &quot;active,&quot; or &quot;leaning backwards.&quot; It seems unnecessary to separate them like that. Perhaps wisely, Sear groups all of them together under RCV V 20920, just as he groups all the subtypes of RIC X 1287 under RCV V 20919.</p><p><br /></p><p>As Wildwinds notes at&nbsp; <a href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/honorius/solidi_table.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/honorius/solidi_table.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/ric/honorius/solidi_table.html</a>,</p><p>&quot;Several coins appear to be identical but are given different numbers in RIC, e.g. RIC 1287 and RIC X 1321; 1323; 1326 and 1328 with 1287 simply given the additional header of &quot;Milan and Aquileia styles&quot;, but in the introductory notes on mints, the RIC author does not describe any particular style characteristics of those mints. Almost all of these coins are also given the additional &quot;Cohen 44&quot; reference, so that is no help at all to distinguish 1287 from 1321, 1323 etc. So it seems that the only way of distinguishing them is using the various different captive and / or emperor descriptions for the reverse image.&quot;</p><p>- Having said that, not even the RIC author sticks to his own descriptions. The plate coins for 1205/1206 types b and c show the captive&#039;s legs identical on both coins, with slightly bent knee(s), so not &quot;more or less straight&quot;.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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