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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 3048663, member: 19463&quot;]Embarassed I missed that.&nbsp;&nbsp; Thre is another thing that bothers me about &#039;barbarous&#039; coins.&nbsp; Many seem not to me copies of known official coins but suggest the cutter was not simply copying a coin in hand.&nbsp; The last coin shows PART MAXI on the obverse.&nbsp; The copyist knew the word well enough to know the next letter even though the regular coins end with X?&nbsp; The reverse uses FELICIT AVGVS but regular ones all read AVG?&nbsp; IDK!&nbsp; I understand miscopying.&nbsp; I understand omissions.&nbsp; Expanding with the correct letters is harder for me to understand if the cutters were &#039;barbarians&#039; or even just non-Latin speakers.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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