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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2222499, member: 19463&quot;]I would have a lot more interest in dots and such if I knew the code they carried in their day.&nbsp; I am all for the distinction between, for example, the Constantinian two soldiers types with two standards for the heavy series and one standard for the light.&nbsp; The dots might mean something equally important but since I am ignorant of the question most of them fall onto my apathy list.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>Every so often we hear from someone who is excited to find he has an unlisted variety with a dot that does not appear in the catalog.&nbsp; The coin above shows a dot between stars that is not mentioned in catalogs but that is because it is a compass point used when they laid out the die.&nbsp; Some dies have the dot erased by a star or some other element of design.&nbsp; Authors of standard catalogs understand this and ignore such dots. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]435517[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]435518[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]435520[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>If you look at the Domna&#039;s center star closely you will see the dot in the lower right angle touching the star as closely as you can without being erased completely.&nbsp; There are dies with no sign of the dot.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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