Actually the new specimen is from the same dies as Alfoeldi's second specimen, whose
obv. legend has been remade into that of
Julian II, but from different dies than
his first specimen.
As author of Alfoeldi's die
catalogue of
contorniates, I wrongly thought these two specimens were probably from the same dies; the tooling of the second specimen concealed clear differences in the
legend placement on the
obv. that the new specimen now reveals.
To explain small differences in the
reverse dies, especially the posture of the small figure on the right, I
had to propose that the
Paris coin was
tooled on the
reverse too. The new specimen shows that that
reverse is in fact untouched, and is identical with the
rev. of the new specimen, but different from the
rev. of the specimen in Bologna.