Engravers Error

Very nice find, this one be a difficult error to spot.

Wow. What a great cherry pic, I don't know if you call it that in ancients but awesome find.

I was writing to the museum of Vienna and Verona for more information.
Yest albertrday , I received an answer from Vienna.
Dear Mr. Daelemans,

I am delighted to make your acquaintance!
You have a very good eye, and a good choice - which makes a fine collector, I guess.

You have put your finger on a true variant, it would seem.
I find the system of RIC a bit difficult, so I stuck to MIR Aurelianus by Göbl, where there is a clear commitment to reverse types. However, after consulting our collection I find that the version of IOVI CONSER showing the emperor without any scepter is not an error but rather a true variant, because it seems to exist in several officinae; P, S and Q are attested in Vienna. Then, of course, there are the versions with a short and a long scepter.

On your coin, the emperor does not touch the globe at all, I could not find this die! There are several dies of the version with the short scepter, where the emperor does noch handle the globe, but has his hand below Jupiter's.

I am attaching some of the clearer specimens and will put some of them online soon into our new database http://www.ikmk.at/ (a clone of the Berlin database, as you will notice)

My very best Regards from Vienna,
Klaus Vondrovec
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Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Dr. Klaus Vondrovec
Kurator
Münzkabinett