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<p>[QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 3526715, member: 87404"]And looks like it is an obverse match with this one (different reverse with no B):</p><p>[ATTACH=full]937277[/ATTACH]</p><p><a href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=428430" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=428430" rel="nofollow">https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=428430</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I wonder if the B (and smaller denomination with the A) we're prototypes as Antioch celators got back to work in their workshops after a pause in AE coin mintage of this type. Maybe they made one reverse die for B (large denomination) and one for A (smaller denomination) and they struck coins with them until they wore out and made new ones without the letters. Something to ponder?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Justin Lee, post: 3526715, member: 87404"]And looks like it is an obverse match with this one (different reverse with no B): [ATTACH=full]937277[/ATTACH] [url]https://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=428430[/url] I wonder if the B (and smaller denomination with the A) we're prototypes as Antioch celators got back to work in their workshops after a pause in AE coin mintage of this type. Maybe they made one reverse die for B (large denomination) and one for A (smaller denomination) and they struck coins with them until they wore out and made new ones without the letters. Something to ponder?[/QUOTE]
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