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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 4437424, member: 75937&quot;]What an informative article, [USER=99554]@Ocatarinetabellatchitchix[/USER] ! It&#039;s impossible to overstate the importance of Henry Cohen to Roman numismatics. He was a giant!</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>That coin is an example of the one illustrating the frontispiece of Volume 1 of Cohen!</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s a die-match to the incredibly accurate line-drawing in Cohen!</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/germanicus-as-jpg.829019/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p>Germanicus, 15 BC - AD 19.</p><p>Roman Æ as, 11.18 g, 27.5 mm, 7 h.</p><p>Rome, issued under Caligula, AD 40-41.</p><p>Obv: GERMANICVS CAESAR TI AVG F DIVI AVG N, bare-head of Germanicus, left.</p><p>Rev: C CAESAR DIVI AVG PRON AVG P M TR P IIII P P around large SC.</p><p>Refs: RIC 50; BMCRE 74-78; Cohen 4; RCV 1822; CBN 123.</p><p>Note: Reverse die-match to Henry Cohen, <i>Description historique des monnaies frappées sous l&#039;Empire Romain, Tome I</i>, Paris, 1880, page 225, no. 4.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here&#039;s the listing in Cohen, which is thankfully illustrated:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/germanicus-as-cohen-jpg.829028/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>Note that he letters in the reverse inscription are absolutely superimposable:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/germanicus-as-reverse-die-match-to-cohen-jpg.829029/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>[USER=56859]@TIF[/USER] (I miss her presence here and hope she returns soon) was kind enough to make an overlay to demonstrate this.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1109979[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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