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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;curtislclay, post: 4899423, member: 89514&quot;]David&#039;s very nice and desirable coin: perhaps to be regarded as a mule, since the FIDES PVBLICA type was struck mainly for Vespasian, RIC 1210 (C3), while RIC 1254-5 records only two unique spec. for Titus.</p><p><br /></p><p>A minor slip of the pen: David says RIC 1255 cites Hamburg for the first recorded spec. of his coin, but actually Hamburg 680 is the source for the preceding entry RIC 1254, with just PVBLIC not PVBLICA in rev. legend, not for David&#039;s RIC 1255.</p><p><br /></p><p>For RIC 1255 the correct citation is Giard&#039;s Coinage of Lyon book, no. 114, a hoard coin illustrated on his pl. LII, which is from different dies and less well preserved than David&#039;s new acquisition.</p><p><br /></p><p>Cohen 88 also cites a spec. of David&#039;s coin, though without mention of the globe below bust, from a private collection, M. Bertrand. Priced at 10 francs, so even Cohen appreciated its rarity! Likely not the same spec. as David&#039;s example, however, so RIC might better have rated this coin R2 not R3. That would make David&#039;s &quot;only&quot; the third recorded.</p><p><br /></p><p>Giard also reports another spec. of RIC 1255 but with a legend error, the F omitted from the obv. legend, from the Saint-Léonard hoard of 1864, published in 1865. Unfortunately Giard doesn&#039;t illustrate this coin in his book, though he records that he examined many of the coins from the hoard personally at the museum that acquired them. This legend error coin would have deserved at least mention in a footnote in the new RIC.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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