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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Curtis, post: 24701943, member: 26430&quot;][USER=109412]@Tony1982[/USER] -- I tried to check the reference and noticed something. I can&#039;t find any other examples or references with a <b>draped</b> obverse bust. Of at least <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=%22antoninus+pius%22+moneta+denarius+-hadrian+-commode+-hadrian+-niger+-elagabal+-caracalla+-gallien+-faustina&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=%22antoninus+pius%22+moneta+denarius+-hadrian+-commode+-hadrian+-niger+-elagabal+-caracalla+-gallien+-faustina&amp;category=1-2&amp;lot=&amp;date_from=&amp;date_to=&amp;thesaurus=1&amp;images=1&amp;en=1&amp;de=1&amp;fr=1&amp;it=1&amp;es=1&amp;ot=1&amp;currency=usd&amp;order=1" rel="nofollow">these 35 examples in ACSearch</a> (plus others with different search strings) or <a href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=antoninus+pius+moneta+denarius" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=antoninus+pius+moneta+denarius" rel="nofollow">RIC 76A and RIC 76B as listed on OCRE</a>, every example is just a laureate head, not a draped bust.</p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t have an RIC III hard copy to double-check though. I haven&#039;t checked ERIC II yet. But draped busts are relatively uncommon on Antoninus Pius denarii. (There are a few.) </p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t specialize in these, so I could&#039;ve missed something, but if genuine, I wonder if it&#039;s a mule, or fourree, or a particularly rare or unpublished type?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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