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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2042819, member: 19463&quot;]<a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=39182http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=39182" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=39182http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=39182" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=39182http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=39182</a></p><p>Cool coin!&nbsp;&nbsp; Sear indicates this is II over II and the X you see is from &#039;noise&#039; from the striking or undertype.&nbsp; The options are years 3, 4 and 5.&nbsp; Sear says the type is overstruck on just about anything and this one is obviously cut down scrap which makes it all the more interesting to me.&nbsp; I believe the small o is just a failure to plan ahead and not from the undertype.&nbsp; Compare it to this one: </p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=39182" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=39182" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/search.html?id=39182</a></p><p>where the o in NIKO is small and raised suggesting a die cutter in the mood to experiment.&nbsp;&nbsp; Yours has more legend than these should be expected to have.&nbsp; If it has a fault IMHO it is the strong strike erased the undertype which would be nice if we could identify.&nbsp;&nbsp; Considering all the factors, I consider your coin equal to the one linked above which sold for 75 EUR.&nbsp;&nbsp; I would not pay $75 for it but considering it came as a lot, I doubt you did either and, again IMHO, consider it worth more than the Anastasius.&nbsp;&nbsp; Mine is a bigger mess and I&#039;m not sure of the mint (just right of the smaller o in ANNO).&nbsp;&nbsp; If you like coins neat and clean, buy Byzantine gold.&nbsp; If you like messes, a specialized collection of Heraclius would seem an option.&nbsp; [ATTACH=full]373454[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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