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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 6046644, member: 99456&quot;]<b>RIC</b> refers to the series of books: &quot;<b>R</b>oman <b>I</b>mperial <b>C</b>oinage&quot; Mattingly H. &amp; E. Sydenham, et al. <i>The Roman Imperial Coinage</i>. (London, 1926 - 2020).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1244541[/ATTACH]</p><p><span style="color: #336600"><b><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600">RIC IV 676</span></font> </b></span>refers to:&nbsp; Book 4 coin# 676 - you can find an index to this information online at <b>O</b>nline <b>C</b>oins of the <b>R</b>oman <b>E</b>mpire (<b>OCRE</b>) with examples of the coins - the online version has some advantages over the books, but is also missing a lot of useful (sometimes very dated) material from the books.</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.676" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.4.sa.676" rel="nofollow">RIC IV Severus Alexander 676</a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="5"><span style="color: #006600"><b>RIC 1664</b></span></font> is ambiguous and could be Hadrian or Marcus Aurelius (possibly others too) - links to OCRE provided:</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.1664" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.2_3(2).hdn.1664" rel="nofollow">RIC II, Part 3 (second edition) Hadrian 1664</a></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.1664" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/id/ric.3.m_aur.1664" rel="nofollow">RIC III Marcus Aurelius 1664</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I will add: with this last coin the &quot;<b>As</b>&quot; is a denomination that is struck in &quot;<b>AE</b>&quot; metal (<i>Aes</i> in Latin means bronze)</p><p><br /></p><p>As this is the Saturday Night &quot;Free for All&quot; Thread:</p><p><a href="https://www.carlsberggroup.com/products/1664/kronenbourg-1664/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.carlsberggroup.com/products/1664/kronenbourg-1664/" rel="nofollow"><font size="5"><b>Kronenbourg 1664</b></font></a> is a reference to something else entirely[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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