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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Valentinian, post: 3222160, member: 44316&quot;]I wrote a page on British Claudian imitations:</p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitclaudius.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitclaudius.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitclaudius.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>After illustrating many Claudian imitations, near the bottom are a couple of non-British Claudian imitations with countermarks:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]839159[/ATTACH]</p><p>27 mm. 6:30. 7.05 grams</p><p>BON countermark.&nbsp; This coin may be from the Balkans, not Britain.</p><p>[As in French, BON = good]</p><p>Kraay, in Essays Mattingly, suggests the BON countermark may have been applied under Nerva or Trajan. This coin is very worn, compatible with having circulated a long time.</p><p>BMC 164, a sestertius, and 184, a sestertius, both imitations, have this BON countermark, but there are no photos.</p><p>Banti &amp; Simonetti 61/9 has BON countermark = Hunter I, 17.67 (7.87 g) with different countermark die.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]839160[/ATTACH]</p><p>32 mm. 6:00. 13.47 grams</p><p>Struck imitation of the SPES AVGVSTA type sestertius. (Prototype next below.)</p><p>Countermarked &quot;DV&quot; which is not listed in BMC I and which is coming to be recognized as from the Balkans.&nbsp; [Revalued as a dupondius, as one of the OP coins]</p><p>Obverse legend:&nbsp; ...CLAVDIVS CAESAR AVG ...&quot;</p><p>Reverse legend weak, but visible:&nbsp; SPES AVGVSTA .</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]839161[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>AE35. Sestertius</p><p>Official prototype:&nbsp; Sestertius of Claudius. SPES AVGVSTA, Spes standing left, holding flower.</p><p>&nbsp; This type was copied in Britain, but not as commonly as the Minerva <i>as</i>.</p><p>The site on imitations has no illustrations of British imitations of this type--the previous imitation is from the Balkans.</p><p><br /></p><p>For reference works on imitations, see: </p><p><a href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitationrefs.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitationrefs.html" rel="nofollow">http://augustuscoins.com/ed/imit/imitationrefs.html</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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