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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1913845, member: 19463&quot;]I can not explain the horizontal cut but do not see the suspected tooling as obvious as you do.&nbsp; Vespasian is not a specialty of mine and my examples are ordinary.&nbsp; The IVDAEA was of interest to me since I bought it from a recent Frank Robinson sale where it was listed as having been sold (same coin) in a sale over a decade ago for well less than it brought now.&nbsp; The moral to the story is that ancient coins do not always go up in value - especially ordinary grade ones.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]328247[/ATTACH] </p><p>counterclockwise legend</p><p>[ATTACH=full]328248[/ATTACH] </p><p>Byzantium mint</p><p>[ATTACH=full]328249[/ATTACH] </p><p>Sestertius</p><p>[ATTACH=full]328250[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Two dupondii - both orichalcum but the second does not have the radiate crown which was less than fully consistent by that time.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]328251[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]328252[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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