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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1786973, member: 19463&quot;]I do not have a coin of this die but the situation reminds me of my favorite Laodicea die pair.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]287410[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]287411[/ATTACH]</p><p>As Martin said, for years there was controversy about the existence or not of coins dated IMP VI or IMP VII.&nbsp; Current theory denies both giving the coins to misread IMP VIII dies.&nbsp; My pair shows the same obverse die with one clearly reading IMP VI while the other shows that the other II&#039;s were hiding where poor strike might lose them.&nbsp; These coins usually are missing some letters.&nbsp; It is nice when die identity can help us fill in the blanks.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>If anyone reading this does not understand the term &#039;die match&#039;, this page might help:</p><p><a href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/dielink.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/dielink.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/dielink.html</a></p><p>&nbsp;</p><p>Anyone really interested in getting involved in this great tool for numismatists can even take the little exercise at the bottom of that page.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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