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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2174089, member: 19463"]The interesting part here is that the FT coins is in RIC volume VI while TF and several others are in volume VII. There is a note at the bottom of RIC VI page 265 mentioning errors resulting from Kent attributing coins marked TF to FT series. My specimen of the FT weighs over a gram more than my TF suggesting the split between volumes may be correct in a chronological sense. I know you have to split a book somewhere but things like this do not make RIC any more user friendly for those of us who, unlike the editors, lack buckets full of the coins to compare. </p><p><br /></p><p>Just to throw in another one for good measure, there is a TF version with both letters on the left and a star on the right. There are millions of variations of ancient coins. Constantine did his part to be sure.</p><p>[ATTACH=full]420101[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 2174089, member: 19463"]The interesting part here is that the FT coins is in RIC volume VI while TF and several others are in volume VII. There is a note at the bottom of RIC VI page 265 mentioning errors resulting from Kent attributing coins marked TF to FT series. My specimen of the FT weighs over a gram more than my TF suggesting the split between volumes may be correct in a chronological sense. I know you have to split a book somewhere but things like this do not make RIC any more user friendly for those of us who, unlike the editors, lack buckets full of the coins to compare. Just to throw in another one for good measure, there is a TF version with both letters on the left and a star on the right. There are millions of variations of ancient coins. Constantine did his part to be sure. [ATTACH=full]420101[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]
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