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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1760965, member: 19463&quot;]When I returned home from Indiana today not only did I have the coins I bought there but the mailman had some waiting here so I&#039;m really behind on cataloging and photographing. I&#039;m not sure why I started with this one (thought it would be easy???) but immediately ran across one of those RIC situations that will require more research. The coin seems to catalog RIC 28c page 100 (volume IX) or RIC 41a page 103 equally well. Both RIC listings quote Cohen 60. I have to like Cohen&#039;s way of only cataloging spellings rather than forcing coins into issues. If anyone sees something on this coin that makes it one or the other, please let me know. After driving 650 miles, I&#039;m too tired for deep research so I&#039;ll put this aside for research after I get the real easy ones done.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>[ATTACH=full]278657[/ATTACH]</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Either way it is a pretty coin with a few minor flaws that show more in photos or under magnification than &#039;in hand&#039;. I like the dark tone. The seller says it came from a collection but I don&#039;t know how old. Most of the coins I saw from that group had decent surfaces so I suspect they might predate the current trend toward overprocessing new hoard material. It is a common coin but has a nice older portrait of the young ruler. I&#039;m less impressed by the style of the reverse with the oversize calf on Roma. When I bought it, I thought I was getting a good deal but the scrapes on the face under the tone and reverse clash will keep this out of the collections of our picky brethren but it is welcomed at my place.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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