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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 2863519, member: 84744&quot;]I will piggyback on this thread in the hopes that [USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] or someone can help me out with this seal, which I got as a surprise in a group lot.&nbsp; I understand these are tricky due to the prevalence of major abbreviation....</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]682662[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]682663[/ATTACH] </p><p>I can&#039;t make out much on the obverse besides (apparently) &quot;IW?&quot; possibly preceded by the symbol for &quot;Saint&quot;... so I am assuming St. John.</p><p><br /></p><p>The reverse is much more legible.&nbsp; The only word I&#039;ve been able to extract with any confidence (still not much!) is &quot;APXICΔΚΟΝW&quot;, i.e. archdeacon, spanning lines 2 and 3. I won&#039;t prejudice things by writing out my guesses for the rest of the letters.&nbsp; I would love to be able to decipher a name somewhere there...[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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