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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Orfew, post: 3628411, member: 74968&quot;]Sorry, I wanted to be sure of my research before replying. There were 2 issues of CENS POT denarii, the 4th and 5th issues of 85 CE. All of the CENS POT denarii are R2 (very few examples known). There is also 1 single aureus known for the fourth issue. There are bronze coins with CENS POT and some of these are actually common. As to why these issues are interesting we need to know what happened in 82 CE. Domitian reformed the coinage. He increased the fineness of the denarii to levels seen when Augustus ruled. That is, he undid the reforms of Nero who debased the denarii. The 2 issues previous to the 4th and 5th used the tiles CENSORIA POTESTATE and CENS POTES. These are very rare coins. They are all R2 or R3 (unique). After the CENS POTES issue the denarii were debased back to the post reform Neronian standard. So the 4th and 5th issues are interesting because they are the first issues after Domitian debased the denarii.</p><p><br /></p><p>As for the coins I am interested in I would like to get as many from the 4th and 5th issues as possible. I am not only interested in RIC 342.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>There are 2 on ACSearch. One is Ex: Harry Sneh, one is Ex: Dr. Jyrki Muona.</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC mentions 2 and one is the Dr Muona coin. One is in the Berlin collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is 1 on OCRE. It is the Berlin example in RIC.</p><p><br /></p><p>None in the London or Paris collections.</p><p><br /></p><p>4 in the Forum galleries including my first example. One of these belongs to David and is an Ex: Harry Sneh, Ex: Dr. Muona coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>There are 2 on Coryssa. One is Ex: Harry Sneh, Ex: Dr. Muona. The other is Ex: Harry Sneh and is one of the examples on Acsearch.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is one in the CNG archives. It is one of the coins on Coryssa.</p><p><br /></p><p>Then there is the one I just received.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>So unless I miscalculated&nbsp; I believe that makes fewer than 6-7 examples. If there are fewer than 10 known, I think that makes them &quot;quite rare&quot;.</p><p><br /></p><p>I hope this answers your question.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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