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<p>[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 3612299, member: 91240"]You're in a better position to tell what letter it might be on the right. Sometimes there's just not enough to tell.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 'Aurelius' isn't always on the left side of all Marcus Aurelius Alexandrian drachms, but for all of the recorded examples with this reverse type it looks like it is (<b><font size="3"><a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14039" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14039" rel="nofollow">14039</a>, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/15994" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/15994" rel="nofollow">15994</a> and <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14647" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14647" rel="nofollow">14647</a>)</font></b>. Yours has it on the right, as do other Verus coins of this type (only one, <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14590" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14590" rel="nofollow">14590</a>, is legible). So it would either have to be a new variety of Marcus Aurelius or one of the Verus coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I think the clincher is that it looks like yours and the example for RPC <a href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/16578" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/16578" rel="nofollow">16578</a> have an obverse die match, but it's a lot rougher. I could be wrong, but I like trying to decipher these ugly Alexandrians way too much. Overlaying them it looks like they line up perfectly. </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]967372[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="SeptimusT, post: 3612299, member: 91240"]You're in a better position to tell what letter it might be on the right. Sometimes there's just not enough to tell. The 'Aurelius' isn't always on the left side of all Marcus Aurelius Alexandrian drachms, but for all of the recorded examples with this reverse type it looks like it is ([B][SIZE=3][URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14039']14039[/URL], [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/15994']15994[/URL] and [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14647']14647[/URL])[/SIZE][/B]. Yours has it on the right, as do other Verus coins of this type (only one, [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/14590']14590[/URL], is legible). So it would either have to be a new variety of Marcus Aurelius or one of the Verus coins. Anyway, I think the clincher is that it looks like yours and the example for RPC [URL='https://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/coins/4/16578']16578[/URL] have an obverse die match, but it's a lot rougher. I could be wrong, but I like trying to decipher these ugly Alexandrians way too much. Overlaying them it looks like they line up perfectly. [ATTACH=full]967372[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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