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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2872453, member: 19463&quot;]Odd, I disagree with that old fool all the time.&nbsp; In this case, on page 454, the note to RIC 81 and 82 specifies that these numbers sometimes show the R-E break but you will note that they do not assign a different number to these differences so I don&#039;t consider that differentiating between them.&nbsp; That would have required a number like 82a and record which officinae had been observed with the different split.&nbsp; I am all for separations in catalogs that recognize a difference that was done for some reason but not one that was a matter of running out of space on a die and sliding one letter to the other side.&nbsp; RIC is famous for inconsistency when it comes to recording little differences in some cases but not others and usually fails to explain why they felt one variation was significant and another was not.&nbsp; If, for example, we were to find that the legend shift was made when Constans died, the variation would merit a new number.&nbsp; If all coins of a certain officina were one way, we should separate them but here we have shown an IA each way.&nbsp; There are a million details to be studied on these coins and I most certainly agree that Randy should be the one to do all this study.&nbsp; He is a lot closer to the age that will have a ghost of a chance of making a difference.&nbsp; If I were in charge of assigning responsibility, I&#039;d prefer Martin get busy straightening out the mess we call Eastern Septimius.&nbsp; A serious problem we have in the hobby is that the number of interesting topics that need to be explored is greater than the serious students willing to put the work into it.&nbsp; Most I know have more than one interest and may not reach the end of all those studies.&nbsp; In 1997, I started my web pages with two: one was Eastern Septimius and the other was a Falling Horseman.&nbsp; In a few years I had learned a lot about several other topics but pretty much nothing new about Septimius.&nbsp; We need specialists dedicated to figuring out things that were not known in the 20th century and before.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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