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<p>[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7327496, member: 89514"]Donna,</p><p><br /></p><p>Another TEMPOR FELIC sestertius with stars above the twins, coupled in this case with an obv. portrait wearing stephane, was sold this morning by CGB in Paris; see their picture below. They didn't notice the stars.</p><p><br /></p><p>A middle bronze of the same sort, but without stephane on obv., was in NAC Q, 6 April 2006, lot 1909, again without describing the stars. See their picture below.</p><p><br /></p><p>A similar middle bronze with stars, also with no stephane on obv., and from different dies on both sides than the NAC coin, was in Jacques Schulman's Vierordt Sale of 1923, lot 1657. Here the stars were noticed in the catalogue description, and this detail was accordingly picked up by Mattingly in RIC 1677 and BMC 998 note: "Similar, but with stars over the heads of the infants."</p><p><br /></p><p>I'd be surprised if that was the first published notice of the appearance of two stars in this type. More likely someone else had noticed the stars, and had published his observation, but later cataloguers just overlooked his discovery!</p><p><br /></p><p>I was glad to read last year that an author has been lined up to compile a new edition of RIC 3: Johan Van Heesch, who was Curator of Coins at the Brussels Cabinet before his retirement last year.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="curtislclay, post: 7327496, member: 89514"]Donna, Another TEMPOR FELIC sestertius with stars above the twins, coupled in this case with an obv. portrait wearing stephane, was sold this morning by CGB in Paris; see their picture below. They didn't notice the stars. A middle bronze of the same sort, but without stephane on obv., was in NAC Q, 6 April 2006, lot 1909, again without describing the stars. See their picture below. A similar middle bronze with stars, also with no stephane on obv., and from different dies on both sides than the NAC coin, was in Jacques Schulman's Vierordt Sale of 1923, lot 1657. Here the stars were noticed in the catalogue description, and this detail was accordingly picked up by Mattingly in RIC 1677 and BMC 998 note: "Similar, but with stars over the heads of the infants." I'd be surprised if that was the first published notice of the appearance of two stars in this type. More likely someone else had noticed the stars, and had published his observation, but later cataloguers just overlooked his discovery! I was glad to read last year that an author has been lined up to compile a new edition of RIC 3: Johan Van Heesch, who was Curator of Coins at the Brussels Cabinet before his retirement last year.[/QUOTE]
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