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Title: RIC 6 to 10 bust?
Post by: COINS FAN on September 13, 2020, 01:44:24 pm: Hello,

On the RIC 8, page 260: RIC 160 say ''CS1 / G3L for CS1 i understood its legend: D N CONSTAN - TIVS P F AVG.. But what is G3L? I thinks its the desription bust, but where can i find it?

Mint mark locations are hard to understand too. On same RIC 160 under: N_ R :star:P what mean G and :star: (for RIC 161)?
Title: Re: RIC 6 to 10 bust?
Post by: Pekka K on September 13, 2020, 01:53:19 pm: G3L = draped and cuirassed globe in right hand, pearl-diademed, left.

You can find bust descriptions on spread out leaf after Plate 28.

Pekka K
Title: Re: RIC 6 to 10 bust?
Post by: Heliodromus on September 13, 2020, 02:20:14 pm: The G and * indicate where each officina has been seen/reported.

RIC 160 has G in "S" column, meaning that officina S has been seen in Otto Voetter's G(erin) catalog

RIC 161 has * in "S" column, meaning that officina S has been seen somewhere

Ben
Title: Re: RIC 6 to 10 bust?
Post by: COINS FAN on September 13, 2020, 02:37:41 pm: Thanks,

Its perfect!
Title: Re: RIC 6 to 10 bust?
Post by: COINS FAN on September 14, 2020, 11:43:48 am: I encounter a last problem: RIC VIII (Roma mint) for example 195 to 197:

RP
L P PU
L L L W . H
C L L L

Why RP upside? It is for example, to mean that all marks beging by R, then P, S, T, E, Q? And then the C mean RT minmark seen on Cohen?
Title: Re: RIC 6 to 10 bust?
Post by: Pekka K on September 14, 2020, 11:58:49 am: RP is code for mintmarks RP to RS (P-B-T-Q-E-S -> 1-2-3-4-5-6)

Rest of letters are codes for collections, where the coin was noted.
See listing on page xliii, where eg. C = Copenhagen, Nationalmuseum.

Pekka K
Title: Re: RIC 6 to 10 bust?
Post by: COINS FAN on September 14, 2020, 12:01:10 pm: Ok, thanks

For S was for Second, here it is for sixt.. i learn something