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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;TIF, post: 3047269, member: 56859&quot;]I&#039;m trying to work this out and am running into problems with the attribution (not surprising since I&#039;m not fluent with LRBs).&nbsp; Using Tesorillo&#039;s pages, the reverse is <a href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/052/052.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/052/052.htm" rel="nofollow">Type 52</a>, [IOVI CON]SERVATORI, with Jupiter standing left, wearing a chlamys, sceptre in left hand, thunderbolt in right hand (I think I see a thunderbolt on your coin rather than Victory or a patera).&nbsp; However, the mint and field marks are wrong as well as the obverse legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>Maybe I&#039;m wrong about the thunderbolt and he&#039;s holding Victory or a patera, with eagle left at his feet (<a href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/053/053i.htm" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.tesorillo.com/aes/053/053i.htm" rel="nofollow">Type 53</a>).&nbsp; That brings the correct field marks into play but the mint and obverse legend are still wrong.</p><p><br /></p><p>Another Tesorillo page lists obverse legends by ruler and that page shows Type 52 associated with the OP coin&#039;s obverse legend, IMP LIC LICINIU[S P F AVG], so maybe the page for type 52 has a mistake or is incomplete?</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway... maybe that isn&#039;t the the thing to focus on, so I took a look at the overstruck bit of legend on the obverse, expecting to find that is part of the obverse legend or, if a flip over double strike, the reverse legend.</p><p><br /></p><p>It doesn&#039;t look right for either type of overstrike <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.&nbsp; I&#039;m seeing &quot;VSD_&quot;&nbsp; Mirror imaging the bit in Photoshop to &quot;correct&quot; for a possible flipover makes it look like &quot;_ORV&quot;.&nbsp; Neither of those fragments are a letter sequence found on either side of this coin.</p><p><br /></p><p>Stumped for the moment.&nbsp; Time to take a break and come back to the puzzle later <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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