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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 7610194, member: 44316&quot;]Looking at the legend on mine, just above, I see some well-formed letters but not well-formed words. It looks like</p><p>V M AΛ S L L - ... O L S&nbsp; C N I</p><p>Almost none of that is right. I have issues from years 25, 31, and 33 that have are pretty close to reproducing the legible and correct</p><p>DN IVSTINIANVS PP AVG </p><p>from earlier issues.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>I incline toward thinking this is still an official mint issue, but the mint staff was depleted and this engraver was illiterate. You can read about hard times at Antioch on my site here:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/interesting/Justinian.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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