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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8341732, member: 85693&quot;]Bringing back another Golden Oldie because I found this thread very helpful with an attribution hurdle I was having trouble with the past couple of days...</p><p><br /></p><p>Indeed, Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius portraits from Antioch are hard to tell apart a lot of the time.&nbsp; The coin below was attributed by the seller (eBay) as Lucius Verus.&nbsp; From what I saw, it sure looked like Lucius Verus to me.&nbsp; However, when I started digging in, I saw an &quot;M&quot; in the obverse legend, meaning this has to be Marcus Aurelius, from what I can tell after hours going blind on RPC online, acsearch, etc.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479225[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Marcus Aurelius&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 22</b></p><p><b>(161-180 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Syria, Seleucis &amp; Pieria Antiochia ad Orontem </b></p><p>AYT K M AYPHΛ [ANTIΩINOC CEB], laureate head right / S C, A below, all within laurel wreath of eight bunches of leaves</p><p>McAlee 590h; RPC IV.3 7049.</p><p>(12.91 grams / 22 x 21 mm)</p><p>eBay May 2022 </p><p><b>Attribution Notes:</b> Seller listed this as Lucius Verus (portrait does resemble LV), but M in obverse legend is for Aurelius.</p><p>For the other one I own like this I made this note, which seems to apply to this specimen: RPC IV.3 7049 (temp) seems to match McAlee 590h, but references: &quot;McAlee (M. Aurelius) 15.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the &quot;M&quot;:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479226[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I have another Marcus Aurelius from Antioch, the same type as the new one shown above; the M is harder to see on this.&nbsp; But the portrait on this one looks more Marcus-y to me; the Harlan Berk attribution gave me far more confidence about this one: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1479223[/ATTACH]</p><p><b>[ATTACH=full]1479224[/ATTACH] </b></p><p><b>Marcus Aurelius&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Æ 20</b></p><p><b>(161-180 A.D.)</b></p><p><b>Syria, Seleucis &amp; Pieria Antiochia ad Orontem </b></p><p>[AYT K] M AYPHΛ AN[TIΩINOC CEB], laureate head right / S C, H below, all within laurel wreath of eight bunches of leaves</p><p>McAlee 590h; RPC IV.3 7049.</p><p>(9.67 grams / 20 x 18 mm)</p><p>eBay Sept. 2021&nbsp; </p><p><b>Attribution Notes: </b>Coin came in a Harlan J. Berk flip. Attribution on flip is</p><p>&quot;McAlee-590h.&quot;&nbsp; Also:&nbsp; &quot;Rare. Ex Robert Effler Collection.&nbsp; Said to have been</p><p>found in Beirut.&quot;</p><p>RPC IV.3 7049 (temp) seems to match this, but references &quot;McAlee (M. Aurelius) 15.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>So thank you, CTers of this thread - this was helpful (and made me feel as if I weren&#039;t the only one having trouble with these - you are not alone, [USER=99456]@Sulla80[/USER] !).&nbsp; <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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