A hole filler and an upgrade all in one

I posted this coin recently in a thread on holed coins.

https://www.cointalk.com/threads/sometimes-a-hole-makes-it-cooler.309389/

Commodus denarius
Obv:– M COMM ANTO - N AVG PIVS BRIT, Laureate head right
Rev:- LIR AVG R M TR P - XVII COS VII P P, Libertas standing left folding pileus and sceptre
Minted in Alexandria. A.D. 192
Reference:– BMCRE -. RIC -. RSC -.



Well this has arrived today. And this new example is from the same obverse die, a different reverse die but doesn't have a hole....



Martin

 

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The hole is placed where it does not affect the coin much. Interesting that both have similar surfaces, maybe from the same source hoard?

 

Nice upgrade with a die match to boot.

 

Always interesting when a die match is found.

 

By the way it was, as is almost inevitable, identified by the dealer as a Rome mint coin.

 

Nice upgrade Martin.

 

Nice upgrade, for sure. Martin, is it safe to say that you collect these (i.e. coins when the eastern mints were operating 192-196?) more by mint than by ruler, irrespective of how you arrange them in your album? For that matter, how do you arrange them?