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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 7608173, member: 19463&quot;]I&#039;d not heard the Vespasian ID before.&nbsp; Nero was standard but someone came up with a coin after Nero bearing the mark and suggested Nerva.&nbsp; I would have to suspect that discovery coin was &#039;countermark added&#039; in modern days but never saw the whole story on that.&nbsp; Interesting to me is the fact that the NCAPR tends (almost always) to be placed in the same place on the coin but that place varies by the type.&nbsp; My Nero Claudius Drusus is normal with the mark in right field behind the head.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309829[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>However, my Claudius has the mark on the &#039;wrong&#039; side since these are usually marked behind the head even though the space there is rather tight.&nbsp; It may be asking a lot to consider what was in the mind of the person who applied these countermarks.&nbsp; This discrepancy did not bother the generally trustworthy dealer from whom I got the coin but it does still&nbsp; bother me.&nbsp; I need to see 10,000 of these coins and find out how many show placement variations.&nbsp; Has anyone done a c/m die study on these?&nbsp; It is obvious there were several punches used in this issue but I never saw any count.&nbsp; Were there ten or a hundred? Are punch duplicates common or hard to find?&nbsp; How many of these exist today?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1309830[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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