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<p>[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4285935, member: 84744"]As far as I know, there are never stars on T-bone's bronze. This contrasts with, say, Commodus, Elagabalus, Julia Maesa, or Julia Paula, where a star on the silver always seems to be matched by a star on the equivalent bronze issue. Does this suggest it's a control mark, and not part of the design? </p><p><br /></p><p>It does seem to raise some doubt about Mattingly's suggestion that it's an indicator of issue date. Why wouldn't it be on the bronze, then? I suppose it's possible that the star issue was indeed earlier and simply didn't include any bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of Severus Alexander's silver issues from Antioch occur both with and without star. (Antioch didn't issue any bronze of course.)</p><p><br /></p><p>What an interesting little detail!</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1090833[/ATTACH] </p><p>RIC 211 (Elagabalus) - always seems to have a star, all metals</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1090834[/ATTACH] </p><p>Dupondius, RIC 322 - always with a star, all metals. An earlier dated issue (TR P II), otherwise of the same type, seems to come only without a star.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Severus Alexander, post: 4285935, member: 84744"]As far as I know, there are never stars on T-bone's bronze. This contrasts with, say, Commodus, Elagabalus, Julia Maesa, or Julia Paula, where a star on the silver always seems to be matched by a star on the equivalent bronze issue. Does this suggest it's a control mark, and not part of the design? It does seem to raise some doubt about Mattingly's suggestion that it's an indicator of issue date. Why wouldn't it be on the bronze, then? I suppose it's possible that the star issue was indeed earlier and simply didn't include any bronze. Some of Severus Alexander's silver issues from Antioch occur both with and without star. (Antioch didn't issue any bronze of course.) What an interesting little detail! [ATTACH=full]1090833[/ATTACH] RIC 211 (Elagabalus) - always seems to have a star, all metals [ATTACH=full]1090834[/ATTACH] Dupondius, RIC 322 - always with a star, all metals. An earlier dated issue (TR P II), otherwise of the same type, seems to come only without a star.[/QUOTE]
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