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Message:: [QUOTE="jamesicus, post: 3163722, member: 14873"]Thank you for that insightful reply [USER=82194]@dadams[/USER]. I don’t have a definitive answer to your question - I have researched this continuously and will continue to do so. Here are two recent acquisitions  that depict fine inscriptional lettering: <img src="http://jp29.org/000claudsestertius600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />RIC Vol. I, CLAUDIUS, SESTERTIUS, Rome, No. 112, 50-54AD, (36mm, 28.2gm)Obverse depiction: Claudius, laureate head facing rightInscription: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP IMP PPReverse depiction: Civic Oak WreathInscription in four lines:EX SCP POB CIVESSERVATOS(within wreath) <img src="http://jp29.org/000claudas600.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />RIC Vol. I, CLAUDIUS, AS, Rome, No. 113, 41-45AD, (29mm, 11.2gm)Obverse depiction: Claudius, bare headed, facing left, undraped bustInscription: TI CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG PM TRP IMP PPReverse depiction: Personification of Liberty standing right holding pileus (freedman’s cap)  in right handInscription: LIBERTAS AVGVSTA - S C (left and right)[/QUOTE]