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Message:: [QUOTE="Curtis, post: 8253671, member: 26430"]It's a great example, period! I recognize that one from looking up all the ones I could find in auctions. It seems like there are very few showing the emperor's entire body on the flan with that much legend! Great details of his attire. The patina gives it the look of leather armor, which is really cool. Doesn't your description have a few too many characters on the left side legend? (IШ ΔЄCΠOTHC O ΔϪKAC) I think that's the "full legend" on trachy types. Your coin may have only 1-2 characters (ЄC) off flan (which is better than >95% of these). I think it's more like: IШ ΔЄC O ΔϪKAC (but I don't ever see the Ϫ ... Maybe only: IШ ΔЄC O ΔKAC ?). Funny thing about some early references -- de Saulcy had only seen the one coin & had to guess what the inscriptions were based on other types on John III's coinage (flat & cup coins), and got it wrong! Sabatier had access to a better example and was the first to give the legend above, which Goodacre also used in his 1933 Handbook (vol 3), though he gave fewer characters in his 1931 article. Sear & Suarez don't give legends. Haven't double-checked Hendy & DOC. Personally I go with the even short version, which is almost fully visible on yours (I've only got about 4.5 characters visible on mine): IШ ΔЄC O ΔKAC[/QUOTE]