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Message:: [QUOTE="Ocatarinetabellatchitchix, post: 8052141, member: 99554"]Sorry to bring back this old boring thread, but I discovered by chance the existence of a third specimen ! In 2006, with the help of the Ministry of the Interior, the fund of the National History Museum of Sofia received an extremely rare Roman copper coin from the second half of the third century. It was found by treasure hunters with the help of metal detectors in one of the numerous Roman sites in Northwestern Bulgaria (it is quite possible, for example, that it originated from the ancient city of Raciaria, whose ruins are currently under constant and unpunished excavation and looting by various "treasure hunter teams”). Description: • Obverse: DOMITIAN...... AVG. Bust of Domitian, wearing beard and moustaches, right • Reverse: LAET...... AVG. Laetitia standing left, holding wreath in right hand, unclear object in left hand. Alter with fire below, left. Copper. Half worn and slightly corroded example. Diameter 16–18 mm; weight 1.53 g The museum just sent me the article from their annual reports, published in 2010. You can see the picture inside. Unfortunately the picture is b&w and with low resolution. They will try to find from their numismatic colleagues a better one. I'm looking forward to see it, because it will be easier to determine if we are in the presence of a new type for this "Emperor". [ATTACH=full]1394559[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]