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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;lrbguy, post: 3125673, member: 88829&quot;]Thank you for rounding out the picture on this one, IOM.&nbsp; I do not have RIC I revised.&nbsp; However, here is a link to the British Museum collection of coins of <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1213222&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Vitellius&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1213222&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Vitellius&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">Vitellius.&nbsp; </a></p><p><br /></p><p><font size="4">The coin with Museum number </font>1850,0809.3 is very similar to my coin but with a rather different obverse inscription A VITELLIVS GERMANICVS IMP.&nbsp; This is a group 1 coin, with the following museum note:&nbsp; &quot;Vitellius before his elevation had been a member of the college of <i>quindecimviri sacris faciundis</i> to which the reverse alludes. In this first issue at Rome, Vitellius is not styled Augustus.&quot;</p><p><br /></p><p>Another coin <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1213210&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Vitellius&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1213210&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Vitellius&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">1913,1115.40</a> , has the same reverse, and obverse inscription, as mine, but the bust of Vitellius is laureate.</p><p><br /></p><p>However, coin number <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1213213&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Vitellius&amp;page=1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1213213&amp;partId=1&amp;searchText=Vitellius&amp;page=1" rel="nofollow">1977,0911.2</a> is identical to my coin in every respect.&nbsp; The museum coin is attributed to a York hoard findspot, and it has the museum note: &quot;Similar to RIC1 86, p.272 but bare head (see note p.273).&quot;&nbsp; This is accompanied by two bibliographic references:<font size="4"><b> Bibliography </b></font></p><p>Robertson 2000, 57&nbsp; (Robertson, Anne S; Buttrey, T V (ed.); Hobbs, Richard (ed.), An Inventory of Romano-British Coin Hoards, 20, London, Royal Numismatic Society, 2000)</p><ul> <li><ul> <li>RIC1 86, p.272 (var.) <a href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bibId=330" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/search_the_collection_database/term_details.aspx?bibId=330" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://www.britishmuseum.org/images/v2/defaults/infoIcon.png" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a></li> </ul></li> </ul><p>The obverse of the BM coin appears to be a die match for my coin.&nbsp; The reverse may be as well.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]796446[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Probably more than you wanted to know, but there it is.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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