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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2197722, member: 19463&quot;]I find two points of interest in this wonderful coin beyond those mentioned.&nbsp; Most platform scenes show the figure of Liberalitas holding an abacus as on the Aurelius and Commodus coins above.&nbsp; Pius has some from other donatives with her but not here.&nbsp; Also the platform for Pius is smaller than other emperors.&nbsp; It does not have stairs to be climbed by the recipient as usually seen.&nbsp; Trajan had stairs; Aurelius and Commodus had stairs; Pius no.&nbsp; We see these coins in sestertii and aurei but denarii have just the standing figure of Liberalitas.&nbsp; I suspect this indicates the difficulty of putting so much detail on a smaller coin. </p><p><br /></p><p>My Trajan is straight from a junk box but shows the stairs.&nbsp; The Commodus is an as from his elevation to Caesar.&nbsp; Both have three figures on the top of the platform (but not the same ones) and a citizen on stairs.&nbsp; There seem to be a lot of Trajan platforms available but not all are Liberalitas types.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]427855[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]427856[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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