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<p>[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4076072, member: 85693"]Thanks Doug. I oopsed that one - those are indeed laurel ties. You can even see a leaf. This was one of my "year or two ago" attributions, and I am finding I made a lot of mistakes. Still do, but I hope not as many. </p><p><br /></p><p>To tie into the "educational" aspects of the OP: in order to make the correction, I went to OCRE. I searched "Marcus Aurelius" "denarius" and "Concordia" - and got 27 hits.</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Concordia%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Denarius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Concordia%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Denarius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet:"Concordia"+AND+denomination_facet:"Denarius"+AND+portrait_facet:"Marcus+Aurelius"</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I then narrowed it down with "seated" which only took it down to 23. Concordia was a popular gal with the Philosopher-Emperor, so it would seem. </p><p><br /></p><p>Since mine has AVREL as part of the inscription, I narrowed it down that way to 10</p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Concordia%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Denarius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22+AND+fulltext%3Aseated+AND+fulltext%3AAVREL" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Concordia%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Denarius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22+AND+fulltext%3Aseated+AND+fulltext%3AAVREL" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet:"Concordia"+AND+denomination_facet:"Denarius"+AND+portrait_facet:"Marcus+Aurelius"+AND+fulltext:seated+AND+fulltext:AVREL</a></p><p><br /></p><p>"XVI" brought it down to four. Three of them are bare-headed. The only laureate one is RIC 37. </p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Concordia%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Denarius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22+AND+fulltext%3Aseated+AND+fulltext%3AAVREL+AND+fulltext%3AXVI" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Concordia%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Denarius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22+AND+fulltext%3Aseated+AND+fulltext%3AAVREL+AND+fulltext%3AXVI" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet:"Concordia"+AND+denomination_facet:"Denarius"+AND+portrait_facet:"Marcus+Aurelius"+AND+fulltext:seated+AND+fulltext:AVREL+AND+fulltext:XVI</a></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks again Doug.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Marsyas Mike, post: 4076072, member: 85693"]Thanks Doug. I oopsed that one - those are indeed laurel ties. You can even see a leaf. This was one of my "year or two ago" attributions, and I am finding I made a lot of mistakes. Still do, but I hope not as many. To tie into the "educational" aspects of the OP: in order to make the correction, I went to OCRE. I searched "Marcus Aurelius" "denarius" and "Concordia" - and got 27 hits. [URL]http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Concordia%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Denarius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22[/URL] I then narrowed it down with "seated" which only took it down to 23. Concordia was a popular gal with the Philosopher-Emperor, so it would seem. Since mine has AVREL as part of the inscription, I narrowed it down that way to 10 [URL]http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Concordia%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Denarius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22+AND+fulltext%3Aseated+AND+fulltext%3AAVREL[/URL] "XVI" brought it down to four. Three of them are bare-headed. The only laureate one is RIC 37. [URL]http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=deity_facet%3A%22Concordia%22+AND+denomination_facet%3A%22Denarius%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Marcus+Aurelius%22+AND+fulltext%3Aseated+AND+fulltext%3AAVREL+AND+fulltext%3AXVI[/URL] Thanks again Doug.[/QUOTE]
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