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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;DonnaML, post: 8307505, member: 110350&quot;]Today I received an original copy of the 1966 Maison Vinchon catalog, purchased from Julien Cougnard of Odysseus Numismatique, who had an extra. The photographs in it are much clearer than the ones in the copy I found online, and leave no doubt that Lot 257 is the same coin as the one I purchased. Not that I really had any doubt. As discussed previously, the only apparent difference is the extended &quot;L&quot; in Valentinian on the obverse of the catalog photo, and I think the only reasonable explanation for that is the one that M. Cougnard offered: the extended portion represented some sort of accretion (or, to use the technical term, &quot;Schmutz&quot;) that has since been removed.</p><p><br /></p><p>To refresh recollections, the solidus as it looks now:</p><p><br /></p><p><img src="https://www.cointalk.com/attachments/valentinian-i-solidus-jpg.1453782/" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></p><p><br /></p><p>A better copy of the catalog entry from 1966, Lot 257: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470365[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>With the next lot:</p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470366[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>The entire column:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1470367[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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