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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Marsyas Mike, post: 8287540, member: 85693&quot;]Just back from my local dealer&#039;s where he has a huge bin of bargain stuff in cardboard holders - the usual copper stuff from the 20th century, mostly.&nbsp; I poked around, unenthusiastically, but then I found this: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464509[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Yep, that&#039;s the price - $0.50.&nbsp; A snack?&nbsp; Fifty cents won&#039;t get you a pack of peanut butter crackers out of a vending machine these days!&nbsp; Not a beauty, but not a total dog cookie either.&nbsp; Here&#039;s a photo I took at home: </p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1464510[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>It may be an imitative, but the portrait is pretty nice, I think, and the weight is a robust 10.77 grams (28 mm diameter,) which considering the wear and pitting is pretty decent. </p><p><br /></p><p>A question:&nbsp; is this an as or a dupondius?&nbsp; OCRE is, once again, confusing me - with the legend ending in IMP, it is a dupondius? Everybody else seems to call both of these an as (Wildwinds, etc.). </p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=authority_facet%3A%22Claudius%22+AND+deity_facet%3A%22Minerva%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Claudius%22" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=authority_facet%3A%22Claudius%22+AND+deity_facet%3A%22Minerva%22+AND+portrait_facet%3A%22Claudius%22" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/ocre/results?q=authority_facet:&quot;Claudius&quot;+AND+deity_facet:&quot;Minerva&quot;+AND+portrait_facet:&quot;Claudius&quot;</a></p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 100 <b>dupondius</b>:&nbsp; Obv. legend ends with IMP:&nbsp; TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP</p><p><br /></p><p>RIC 116 <b>as</b>:&nbsp; Obv. legend ends with <b>PP</b>:&nbsp; TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG P M TR P IMP P P[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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