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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2780063, member: 19463&quot;]Another crummy<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Doug coin (you have to read all the threads to understand all the comments): </p><p>My next Baltimore refugee is an as of Augustus of the reverse showing the Altar of Lugdunum dedicated in 10 BC by Augustus and commemorated by the coin issue.&nbsp; Later in the reign the coins were also issued in the name of Tiberius who was by that time the heir apparent.&nbsp; The coins are common.&nbsp; What made this one special to me is the large countermark on the reverse reading TIB CAE.&nbsp; Should this be cataloged under Augustus of under Tiberius?</p><p>[ATTACH=full]642852[/ATTACH] </p><p>I suppose any countermarked coin is a little special to me but this one is unusual in my book.&nbsp; The I of TIB is ligate with the B but I is not a really good letter for ligatures since it would tend to disappear into the straight left side of the B.&nbsp; To avoid this, they cut the I a bit higher than the other letters.&nbsp; However this additional height required the modification of the top of the countermark die to accommodate the tall I.&nbsp; Why did I buy the coin?&nbsp; No, it was not because it was a Caesar Augustus.&nbsp; No, it was not because it had a countermark.&nbsp; Yes, it was because the top border of the countermark was not a straight line.&nbsp; How&#039;s that for a crummy<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie12" alt="o_O" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Doug reason?&nbsp; Is this in the book?&nbsp; I do not own Howgego.</p><p><br /></p><p>I mentioned these were issued for Tiberius 10-14 AD so I should show one:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]642854[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>On the way home, the carpool showed around what they had purchased.&nbsp; One old dealer (only a little younger than I am) told the story of a trip he made to Bulgaria back when coin buyers with US passports were welcome there (no longer the case).&nbsp; He saw a man sorting coins from a hoard and throwing some into the trash.&nbsp; &quot;What&#039;s wrong with those?&quot;, he asked.&nbsp; &quot;Defective!&quot;, came the reply as a hand showed my friend a coin with a countermark.&nbsp; That day my friend bought coins from the trash bin for a discount because 1990&#039;s Bulgarian coin pickers had no use for defective merchandise.&nbsp; These were not these Lugdunum bronzes but I&#039;m sure there would be some people today who would rather have my coin before it was ruined with that stamp.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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