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Message:: [QUOTE="Roman Collector, post: 3137777, member: 75937"]I searched at acsearch info for "Trajan sestertius 579" to see what <a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Trajan+sestertius+579&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?term=Trajan+sestertius+579&category=1-2&en=1&de=1&fr=1&it=1&es=1&ot=1&images=1&thesaurus=1&order=0&currency=usd&company=" rel="nofollow">came up</a>. Three similar coins. The one from NAC is clearly misattributed because COS VI is plain as day. It's actually 601. The one from Gorny & Mosch doesn't have enough of the obverse legend to say whether it reads COS V or COS VI and may well be misattributed. The one from Heidelberger has been "geglättet" (smoothed), by which they mean tooled extensively. Wildwinds doesn't have an example of 579. OCRE claims to have an <a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=Trajan+579" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=Trajan+579" rel="nofollow">example of 579</a>, but its obverse legend is too worn to say it isn't actually 601. In short, I can't find an unambiguous example of 579 online. It must be rare, whereas 601 is relatively common.[/QUOTE]