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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 7997426, member: 89514&quot;]Or was the de Moustier coin of Verus actually an As, with portrait bare not radiate?</p><p><br /></p><p>That&#039;s what Cohen indicates in his original description of the coin in his first edition, Supplement vol. VII, 1868, p. 190, no. 18: &quot;Bare-headed bust right wearing paludamentum and cuirass.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>However in his second edition, vol. III, 1883, L. Verus no. 63, referring to the same de Moustier coin, the description of the bust type has been altered without explanation to &quot;Bust radiate, draped, cuirassed, right&quot;. RIC 1298 and BMC p. 522 of course follow Cohen&#039;s second editon, making the coin a dupondius, without noting the variant description in the Supplement volume of the first edition, which would make it an As.</p><p><br /></p><p>One might guess that Cohen, who had seen the coin, was right, and that the change to &quot;radiate&quot; was just a compiling error of the second edition, after Cohen&#039;s death in 1880; but who knows?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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