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<p>[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 4715224, member: 75525"]Interesting coin and quandary. I would go with 1. I would not be surprised to find a large issue denarius with mismatched dies.</p><p><br /></p><p>Is this your first hybrid RR coin? I bought a M. Servilius / L. Sentius denarius last year to add a hybrid to my collection. It is a fourree and low weight.</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>I agree with Doug. If you can not see a break in the plating, I do not see a downside to a plated coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>A dealer advised me when I started collecting RR coins to find examples and make sure mine looked right and had a good weight. Your coin looks "right". I use a spreadsheet to average weights. I found a few hundred Marius Capito coins on acsearch. The first 100 coins averaged 3.85 grams with a Standard Deviation of 0.097 (ie a tight distribution), a min of 3.40 and a max of 4.06. Your coin would be close to the minimum on that list and more than 3 standard deviations below the average. The industrial engineers I knew would tell you the coin is more than half a bubble off plumb -> probably a fourree.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="rrdenarius, post: 4715224, member: 75525"]Interesting coin and quandary. I would go with 1. I would not be surprised to find a large issue denarius with mismatched dies. Is this your first hybrid RR coin? I bought a M. Servilius / L. Sentius denarius last year to add a hybrid to my collection. It is a fourree and low weight. I agree with Doug. If you can not see a break in the plating, I do not see a downside to a plated coin. A dealer advised me when I started collecting RR coins to find examples and make sure mine looked right and had a good weight. Your coin looks "right". I use a spreadsheet to average weights. I found a few hundred Marius Capito coins on acsearch. The first 100 coins averaged 3.85 grams with a Standard Deviation of 0.097 (ie a tight distribution), a min of 3.40 and a max of 4.06. Your coin would be close to the minimum on that list and more than 3 standard deviations below the average. The industrial engineers I knew would tell you the coin is more than half a bubble off plumb -> probably a fourree.[/QUOTE]
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