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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;GerardV, post: 2854409, member: 76329&quot;]Had a bit of help figuring this one out, but I&#039;m not outing my helper unless we are right. I don&#039;t want to out him if we&#039;re wrong. To be fair, we were between two different mints. My son and I made that guess based on having the coin in hand.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here is the best guess:</p><p><br /></p><p><i>The coin below is Aurelian. The legend says IMP CAVRELIANVS AVG. </i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The reverse is trickier - The bad news is it doesn&#039;t show well in the pic, but at 3 o&#039;clock it says BIS. So, I did a search for Aurelian&#039;s with BIS there and found an example with two figures on the rear with very close positioning as the figures on mine, it reads RESTITVT ORBIS with the same gap between the R And B as this coin. Further investigation and comparison of other similar coins and mint marks makes this one appear to be Antioch.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>The reverse pic isn&#039;t very good. So, the Antioch identification is shaky.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>Any and all comments, or related (or not related) posts are welcome.</i></p><p><i><br /></i></p><p><i>[ATTACH=full]678114[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]678115[/ATTACH] </i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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