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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jamesicus, post: 4612880, member: 14873&quot;]Reply part 1.</p><p><br /></p><p>Oh, my goodness [USER=100136]@thejewk[/USER], what&nbsp; a formidable task you have presented me with! </p><p><br /></p><p>Although it will be somewhat of a diversion, I am happy to do it for I love this kind of thing! Please excuse the following lengthy response, but I think it is necessary.</p><p><br /></p><p>First, I ask you to consider that I have reached that stage of life where my memory has faded considerably and I am often very forgetful (almost all the time now). I frequently have to edit my posts on reread because I find that I have got some information wrong (especially dates and figures) or got it out of sequence - and that sometimes happens late at night when I am re-reading through what I have written during the day and long after I have submitted the post (then I go back and edit). I don’t think I am going senile yet, but it is a function of old age. So please bear with me - I usually manage to get things right eventually.</p><p><br /></p><p>Second, the textual material and photographs that I inevitably need to provide reliable information for a response such as this is usually buried in my archives and I have to dig it out, dust it off, rearrange it and post it.</p><p><br /></p><p>If I remember correctly the differences between the truncated bare bust “invasion folles” and the first issues by the London mint are subtle but I think I can refresh things in order to answer your question. What I intend to do is retrieve from my archives the original set of photos of the invasion coinage of the two Augusti and two Caesars (a complete set used to be a rarity) and then extract “Bastien intermediate” and first London mint issue coins for comparison. I think you will enjoy them. I will dig out any associated notes I find - and plumb my feeble memory for any other bits of information that might be useful. It will take me a couple of days to do all that, but it should be a fun project that produces some useful results.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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