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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 2473987, member: 19463&quot;]As mentioned earlier in my shameless effort to get each of you to buy more than one of these coins, there are variations.&nbsp; Banti lists a few legend variations abbreviating the name Plavtivs but many lower grade coins are not terribly clear on the letters so some will be hard to place.&nbsp; More interesting to me is the statement in Banti, &quot;The face can be smiling or sneering.&quot;&nbsp;&nbsp; That is a fact.&nbsp; In fact, there are many expressions shown on various dies.&nbsp; The ones with snakes seem to be a bit more bland and less individual than some of the snakeless ones.&nbsp; Some of the snakeless dies have really great faces.&nbsp; My favorite is the sneering monster Banti calls 21/2 (A. M.u.M. 38, 1968 Collez. Voirol n. 230.&nbsp; I would love to have a coin of that die.&nbsp; I, then, would need a nice smiler, a pair with really large and really small Medusa heads and a few (dozen) in between showing the variations available on the coin.&nbsp; Oh, Banti showed 37 coins and seems to have a nice variety so maybe I should not be greedy and want more than that.&nbsp; CRRO shows over 90 with many cuties but failed to change their descriptions to recognize the fact not all have snakes.&nbsp; Maybe they don&#039;t need that many???<img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie11" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /></p><p><a href="http://numismatics.org/crro/results?q=453" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://numismatics.org/crro/results?q=453" rel="nofollow">http://numismatics.org/crro/results?q=453</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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