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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;maridvnvm, post: 2084706, member: 31620&quot;]There are many Mars varieties that I have come across. I have an egocentric attraction to collecting the Mars reverses, which is the thing that brought me to ancients many years ago.</p><p><br /></p><p>I haven&#039;t seen on from the earliest AVG issue. With the odd legend series of which the AVG II C examples are a small part I only know of the type with the AVG II C obverse dies. There is a MART VICT of the type noted by Curtis Clay that I will be watching out for but will not hold my breath.</p><p><br /></p><p>There is a MARTI VICT noted for the COS I series in RIC on Page 139, #6a, cited with an incomplete obverse legend of &quot;L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS&quot; from the RD hoard page 98. This type is confirmed in BMCRE on page 89 as 339g having been confirmed by the G. R. Arnold collection.</p><p><br /></p><p>I have this type illustrated below:-</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/normal_RI_064dx_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>For the COS II issue there are a range of varieties:-</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 404 (MART VICT) has three subtypes, a) having the IMP CA L SEP SEV PER AVG COS II, b) being the AVG II C that I am still missing, mentioned above, c) having the IMP CAE L SEP SEV PER AVG COS II obverse legend. These are all noted in the footnotes of BMCRE but BMCRE doesn&#039;t have a MART VICT in the main listings.</p><p><br /></p><p>My COS II, MART VICT has the full COS II legend, IMP CAE L SEP SEV PERT AVG COS II with the T of PERT being the only difference to 404c above.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/normal_RI_064py_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 405, which is BMCRE 377 is MARTI VICT, but the obverse legend has been tooled to one of Pesc. Niger (IMP CAE S C PESC NIGER IVST AVG COS II) but having the portrait of Severus.</p><p><br /></p><p>The closest I have to this coin is illustrated below IMP CAE L SEP SEV PEPT AVG COS - (II)</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/normal_RI_064mh_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 405a is MARTI VICTO with the same legend as RIC 404a above. My MARTI VICTO has the more traditional full COS II legend</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/normal_RI_064jf_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 405b is MAREI(sic) VICT</p><p><br /></p><p>My example comes from the same obverse die with the PEPT...COS (II) shown above.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/normal_RI_064jv_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 406a, BMCRE 378 is MART VICTOR, with the full COS II as on my example below</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/RI%20064cl%20img~0.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 406b is MART VICTOR but with the same legend as RIC 404a above. I don&#039;t have an example of this one but I do have the following one with a matching obverse legend but with a fuller MARTI VICTORI reverse legend.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/normal_RI_064oj_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /> </p><p><br /></p><p>Another Mars oddity in my collection is the following coin:-</p><p><br /></p><p>MART VICTOR, Mars, in military attire, standing left, holding Victory and spear</p><p><br /></p><p>This reverse type is not noted in any of the references and was previously unknown to me.</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10618/normal_RI_064kq_img.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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