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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Roman Collector, post: 3224026, member: 75937&quot;]What a score! I love going into depth, researching die-matches and comparing my scarce coins to other published examples. The specialist collector can often identify coins struck at a branch mint that the generalist -- even experienced dealers -- fail to recognize as special. I know from several of his posts that [USER=19463]@dougsmit[/USER] has picked up several eastern-mint Severans over the years that went unrecognized for what they were.</p><p><br /></p><p>My latest misattribution story is this dupondius of Faustina I which was listed as a sestertius by the auctioneer. This coin appears to be quite rare in the middle bronze denomination. RIC lists it, but cites Cohen. The British Museum does not have an example and it is not to be found at Wildwinds, OCRE, The Coin Project, coinscatalog.com, in the CNG archives or on a search at acsearchinfo. In fact, I am unable to find another example anywhere online.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]839988[/ATTACH]</p><p>Faustina Senior, AD 138-141.</p><p>Roman orichalcum dupondius, 16.19 g, 26.1 mm, 10 h.</p><p>Rome, AD 140-141.</p><p>Obv: DIVA AVGVSTA FAVSTINA, bare-headed and draped bust, right.</p><p>Rev: CONSECRATIO S C, Funeral pyre in three stories, set on base, ornamented and garlanded, surmounted by Faustina in biga right.</p><p>Refs: RIC 1189; BMCRE p. 236 *; Cohen 187; RCV --.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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