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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 4624913, member: 110350&quot;]I tried to see how many of your type were in the hoard, [USER=10461]@lordmarcovan[/USER], but I&#039;m a bit confused. See <a href="https://archive.org/details/thirdnumismatic08royauoft/page/42/mode/2up" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://archive.org/details/thirdnumismatic08royauoft/page/42/mode/2up" rel="nofollow">https://archive.org/details/thirdnumismatic08royauoft/page/42/mode/2up</a>. There were 5 with your obverse and reverse inscriptions, with a bearded bust like yours and T. CONST in the exergue like yours, but without the eagle at the top of the wreath like yours. See Type No. 12 at the cited page.&nbsp; There were 52 with your obverse and reverse inscriptions, T. CONST in the exergue, and an eagle at the top of the wreath, but if I&#039;m reading correctly, the bust in that type is beardless.&nbsp; See Type No. 13 at the cited page, referring back to Type No. 11 -- which is beardless -- for a description of the obverse.&nbsp; But I see none with your inscriptions, T. CONST. in the exergue, an eagle at the top of the wreath, and a bearded bust.&nbsp; So either the article&#039;s author made a mistake in describing Types 12 and/or 13, or the dealer made a mistake in describing your reverse wreath as including an eagle -- it doesn&#039;t really look much like one to me! -- or there&#039;s something I&#039;m not seeing.&nbsp; Or you may need to ask the dealer about provenance.</p><p><br /></p><p>Edited to add: I&#039;m pretty sure it was a mistake by the article&#039;s author: Type 13 should have been described as having a bearded portrait, not beardless. See Sear RCV V 19126 (the same legends, mintmark and eagle at top of wreath as your coin, with an illustration showing Julian with a beard; Sear lists no such type with a beardless portrait). See also RIC VIII 309 at p. 228 (again matching your coin; there is a note preceding the entire section, at p. 227, saying that all of Julian&#039;s portraits of that period were bearded).&nbsp; Which means yours is, in fact, an example of Type 13, for which there were 52 examples in the hoard.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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