CONCORD MILIT


Reference : AYC #13 A (3), RIC 14 a
Weight: 19.56 grs
Metal: Bronze
Diameter: ?
Scarcity: Very rare
Type:

Obverse

Reverse

IMP – CAES M DID SEV - ER IVLIAN AVG

Laureate head with bare bust of Didius Julianus to the right.

CONCO - RD – MILIT / S – C

Concordia standing and holding a standard with each hand, the left standard being surmounted by an eagle turned to the left and the one on the right with the eagle turned also to the left..

Photo of a coin sold the 12/03/2016 by Jean Elsen & ses Fils S.A., Auction 128, lot 228, link to the sale: https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=4172473, lien vers leur site: https://www.elsen.eu/.

There are two obverse legend breaks: IMP CAES M DID SEV - ER IVLIAN AVG and IMP CAES M DID SE - VER IVLIAN AVG. For the reverse, there are variants with the eagle turned to the right, two eagles... The coins are classified in order: long obverse cut SEV - ER with the reverse variants: legend breaks, dots and orientation or number of eagles. Then the same with the short obverse break: SE - VER. Dots are often erased by wear, so ranking is difficult. However, I can already exclude the presence of dots when the coin is worn out, when the gap between the letters is too small to write something.

One coin sold in the catalog: ''Adolph Hess AG, 22 mai 1935, Münzen der Römischer Kaiser, collection Trau, Franz'', lot 1964. This coin seems to share the same reverse die and probably also the same obverse die. Here is the coin: 

Photo from the catalog quoted above, with kind permission of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, link to Gallica for download the catalog: https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k9812016h/f219.item.