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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Nefarius Purpus, post: 6600903, member: 116505&quot;]Today I have been examining images of Sponsians and searching online. Here is another specimen illustrated by Akerman (1834)&nbsp; &#039;A Descriptive catalogue...&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1266221[/ATTACH]</p><p>The same image was re-illustrated by Boyne (1865) &#039;A manual of Roman Coins&#039;</p><p><br /></p><p>One thing I have noticed is that the Hunterian Museum specimen illustrated by Campbell appears to have slipped on the reverse. It therefore looks like it is cast from a mould in which a probably genuine Augurinus coin has been pressed in, but badly, so the beading jumps twice and the lettering is degraded. Some of the detail&nbsp; is messed up and duplicated, and&nbsp; unlike other examples there is no obvious lituus unless that&#039;s it on the fellow&#039;s shoulder</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1266208[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>What I still find weird is that several obverse <i>and reverse</i> designs were used to manufacture these, whenever it was done. For instance the specimen illustrated by Cohen (1892) </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1266230[/ATTACH]</p><p>has a short top ray on the obverse crown and prominent arches under the statue on the reverse. There are lots of other minor differences in the beading etc. It could be inaccurate illustration, but I doubt it. So if the reverses were made by pressing coins into clay to make a mould, different antique coins were used rather than the same coin being re-used!</p><p><br /></p><p>I have not been able to locate the original publications for these two images you posted Octar..chix, so a pointer would be helpful. The top one is certainly the same coin as Cohen. The bottom one may be the same coin as Akerman (above), but only if one or other drawing is quite inaccurate (Akerman has a big space between IMP and SPONSIANI for instance).</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1266232[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1266231[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Any more Sponsians on record?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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