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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;John Anthony, post: 1704045, member: 42773&quot;]I like Tyche threads. I only have two, but they are interesting on a number of levels. The first is a common Julia Mamaea cast in Bostra - common being relative when it comes to provincials of course. It&#039;s rather eye-appealing for the grade, which is average for these coins. The combination of casting and arid climate didn&#039;t result in many high-grade specimens.</p><p><br /></p><p>What is interesting about this coin is that among the few you find, there are frequent &quot;die&quot; matches. I put <i>die </i>in quotations, because I think they should be called hub matches. It stands to reason that if you&#039;re impressing wet plaster with hubs, the hubs will last almost indefinitely, resulting in quite a few matches. Mine appears to match several in SNG and other sources.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://postimage.org/" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://postimage.org/" rel="nofollow"><img src="http://s16.postimg.org/6bl8t7cp1/mamaea.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" /></a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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