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<p>[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7332788, member: 110350"][USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER], looking at Dinsdale again (with footnotes and photos) more closely than I did before, it really doesn't seem that his two different footnotes referencing the existence of examples of the sestertius with stars are based on the middle bronze type catalogued as RIC 1677: the two footnotes on the relevant page (nos. 1 and 2) are specifically attached to the two sestertius types -- nos. 006760 (RIC 1673) and 006770 (RIC 1674), one without and and one with the stephane -- with a third footnote (no. 3) applying to the middle bronze (no. 006780), and citing RIC 1677.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280738[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Furthermore, footnote 2 (to No. 006770, the sestertius with the stephane, so I hadn't looked at it closely before) specifically cites an illustrated example with a closeup showing the twins and stars; see photo 0067770(c) and the accompanying detail:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1280746[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Unfortunately, the source of the photo and detail no. 006770(c) isn't identified, and I can't find it anyplace else in the chapter; perhaps it's elsewhere in the (unpublished) book. But it seems clear from the footnote that it's a photo of a sestertius, not a middle bronze.</p><p><br /></p><p>It's still unclear, though, whether the statement in footnote 1 regarding the existence of examples with stars for no. 006760 -- the type of sestertius without a stephane (i.e., my type) -- is based on Dinsdale's actually having seen one or more such examples, or is based on an assumption that if one or more examples with stars exist for the type of sestertius with a stephane, they must logically also exist for the type without a stephane. As, in fact, they do![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="DonnaML, post: 7332788, member: 110350"][USER=89514]@curtislclay[/USER], looking at Dinsdale again (with footnotes and photos) more closely than I did before, it really doesn't seem that his two different footnotes referencing the existence of examples of the sestertius with stars are based on the middle bronze type catalogued as RIC 1677: the two footnotes on the relevant page (nos. 1 and 2) are specifically attached to the two sestertius types -- nos. 006760 (RIC 1673) and 006770 (RIC 1674), one without and and one with the stephane -- with a third footnote (no. 3) applying to the middle bronze (no. 006780), and citing RIC 1677. [ATTACH=full]1280738[/ATTACH] Furthermore, footnote 2 (to No. 006770, the sestertius with the stephane, so I hadn't looked at it closely before) specifically cites an illustrated example with a closeup showing the twins and stars; see photo 0067770(c) and the accompanying detail: [ATTACH=full]1280746[/ATTACH] Unfortunately, the source of the photo and detail no. 006770(c) isn't identified, and I can't find it anyplace else in the chapter; perhaps it's elsewhere in the (unpublished) book. But it seems clear from the footnote that it's a photo of a sestertius, not a middle bronze. It's still unclear, though, whether the statement in footnote 1 regarding the existence of examples with stars for no. 006760 -- the type of sestertius without a stephane (i.e., my type) -- is based on Dinsdale's actually having seen one or more such examples, or is based on an assumption that if one or more examples with stars exist for the type of sestertius with a stephane, they must logically also exist for the type without a stephane. As, in fact, they do![/QUOTE]
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