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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2569531, member: 19463&quot;]I know it is easy to believe you have the first known example of something special but the fact remains that SMKE is a very common mintmark and SNKC has never been seen before except by eyes unwilling to realize that &#039;fonts&#039; used back then were different than those popular today.&nbsp; It is very common for the second hump of an M to be more narrow than the first and many look a bit like N.&nbsp; The E in this period is usually curved like we write a C rather than square.&nbsp; Below is a completely different coin from Nicomedea using the mark SMNE.&nbsp; Note the M and N are very similar but the M rather blobs together on that second hump.&nbsp; The E is lunate and even raised just a bit which is not all that unusual.&nbsp; Your E is raised a bit, too. All this will make more sense if you handle a few thousand of these things.&nbsp; </p><p>[ATTACH=full]555492[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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