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SOLI INV-I-CTO COMITI for Constantine

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Adriaan78:
Thank you Heliodromus. I completely agree with your description of Sol's pose, it is finally clear to me. However, with RIC 339 and 340 the position of the globe is described as "across body". I could not find out an example but I think it means that the the left arm crosses the body with the globe ending up on the left. Love to see some examples.

The current order in RIC:

RIC 316 - 323 Sol standing left, holding up a globe
RIC 324 - 330 Sol standing left, holding globe close
RIC 331 - 338 Sol standing right, holding up a globe
After RIC 338:Sol standing right, holding globe close

From this I would say that my coin a the 2 examples from Ramskold should be after RIC 338 as the group "Sol standing right, holding globe close". Due to the fact that there only few examples of this pose this group did not make it into RIC.

Adriaan78:
EDIT:
I found some example of RIC 339 and 340 on NOT IN RIC and I agree that the coin is RIC 340. However, the difference between "holding globe close" and "across body" is completely unclear to me.

Heliodromus:
I don't believe there is any real difference between "holding globe close to body" and "holding globe across body".

Lech says the same thing on his p.389 notes:

https://www.forumancientcoins.com/notInRic/cv6.html

I think in cases like this there may have been some very minor difference between specimens - same basic arm bent, elbow out pose, holding globe close to body, but in one case really close to body, and in another with a slight gap. It's probably a result of recording the coins, without photographs to go back and compare, before they had seen enough coins to realize the big picture and properly determine the "multiple choice" categories.

The RIC 339 & 340 listings reference specimens in Vienna which unfortunately they don't have online, but it's possible they may give a photo if you ask (Lech has been successful before, but maybe because of his famous Not In RIC site). I'd bet the Vienna specimens look the same as all the others!

Nikko:
 :-\ ..and what about this Sol?
Standing left, head left or standing right, headl left? 

Victor:
standing left...since it looks like the other leg is slightly bent.

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