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Offline Frans Diederik

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new? bust type for Antoninus Pius sest?
« on: April 16, 2016, 06:32:33 pm »
At first I could not decide what reverse type this left facing  Pius bust had; then I decided upon GENIO SENATVS (RIC 605). I hope you agree. In my notes I found that I missed a similar specimen in December 2015 on an Ebay site. So it must be known. RIC, BMC and Cohen do not describe it. Who has? any info welcome.

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Re: new? bust type for Antoninus Pius sest?
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2016, 01:42:15 am »
At first I could not decide what reverse type this left facing  Pius bust had; then I decided upon GENIO SENATVS (RIC 605). I hope you agree. In my notes I found that I missed a similar specimen in December 2015 on an Ebay site. So it must be known. RIC, BMC and Cohen do not describe it. Who has? any info welcome.

Frans

Hmm,

 Interesting coin... +++

 May be Curtis have some idea..
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Re: new? bust type for Antoninus Pius sest?
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2016, 02:53:58 pm »
I noted a similar coin offered by Sondermann, Oct. 2013, 23.04 g. Maybe the same specimen you saw on eBay in Dec. 2015?
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Re: new? bust type for Antoninus Pius sest?
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2016, 03:33:06 pm »
I found the Sondermann coin, which is undoubtedly of the same obverse die, but has a different reverse.
So this is indeed a new obverse for this type, of which probably three examples are known so far.
Thanks for your input Quadrans and Curtis.


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Re: new? bust type for Antoninus Pius sest?
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2016, 11:52:11 pm »
It looks like a double die match to me.  Same reverse.

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