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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1817689, member: 19463&quot;]I had completely forgotten about the Melcher collection in Triton VI.&nbsp; He had relatively few coins but all were EF+.&nbsp; Some were very rare and interesting while others were just EF examples of common types.&nbsp; He did have one coin of great interest to me.&nbsp; Lot 984 was a die duplicate of my coin of the type but showed two dots at the end of the reverse legend missing on my coin due perhaps to the defective flan.&nbsp;&nbsp; Looking further, I note that I also have a coin of this reverse die with a Septimius obverse (an unusual one with both II beyond the point of the bust) and it seems to lack the dots as well.&nbsp;&nbsp; Now I have the question if the dots were added to the die after the first coins were struck.&nbsp; I would love to see other coins of this reverse die.</p><p>The Melcher coin:</p><p><a href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=28096" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=28096" rel="nofollow">http://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=28096</a></p><p>&nbsp;My two:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]297995[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]297996[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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