Hi,
I’ve been doing a study of this
jugate Sol “series” and I now think that you are correct
Curtis in suggesting that the
Hunter specimen is the one illustrated in Stukeley’s plates as I can find no reference to any other examples pairing this
obverse type with this
reverse legend (excepting my own example, of course).
I now have images of eleven of the twelve examples of the
jugate Sol coins known to me and it is apparent that this is more than a single issue when looking at the spread of
mint marks (C, CXXI and S/P//C) and the corpus is represented by four distinct
obverse dies.
Five of the coins are in the British Museum (one of which, BM 1992,0635.1, must be mis-catalogued on the basis of the die links now known to me; another of the British Museum coins, BM1863,0325.4, is clearly the same specimen as the one illustrated, but not owned, by
Kennedy in
his “Dissertation upon Oriuna”, from 1751 ), two in the
Hunter collection in
Glasgow, five in private
hands. I need to check the
Cambridge and
Oxford collections (sadly the Heberden Coin Room is undergoing a reorganisation and so is not dealing with enquiries at present) to see if they hold any further specimens.
I’m hoping that my
work on this series will get properly published next year.
Regards,
Mauseus