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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1253981, member: 19463&quot;][ATTACH]135235.vB[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>I can&#039;t answer that since I don&#039;t have the coin but I&#039;ll toss out there my low grade (F, with obverse off center) example of &#039;another Balbus&#039; C. Naevius Balbus (no relation?) from a couple years later.&nbsp; I suspect the same team was striking then.&nbsp; My coin has the obverse quite o/c but I selected it because it shows the triga with the third horse turned gracefully to fit better on the round flan.&nbsp; My obverse is Venus (a little hard looking but at least no beard) with the control mark (o) now above the horses.&nbsp; I find it interesting that the examples I have seen tend to have edge serrations much more severe on the reverse than on the obverse.&nbsp; The question is whether the centering was intentional or just sloppy workmanship.&nbsp; Looking in my few books on the subject I found well centered examples of both coins in the Royal Ontario Museum booklet but they also had a poorly centered example of each (they collected the varieties with and without control marks) so perhaps finding a nice one is not particularly easy but possible.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>Just for the record, I&#039;ll throw in &#039;yet another&#039; Balbus (L. Thorius with Juno and no chariot - again I assume no relation - Balbus was a common cognomen) just to point out that the name that counts is the one in the middle and we should specify our wants by Antonius or Naevius lest we get an old bull.&nbsp; This coin is common enough that even a low end collector like me can find one relatively well centered but these are available much better than this one.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH]135236.vB[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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