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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Al Kowsky, post: 3405943, member: 97383&quot;]Doug Smith, In a thread you posted on CoinTalk on February 12, 2018 you stated &quot;We really do not <b>know</b> anything certain about the countermark&quot; (NCAPR), &amp; that pretty much holds true today. In that same thread you mention &quot;There is one coin of Vespasian bearing this mark&quot;, without illustrating the actual coin, but you do cast doubt on the coin&#039;s authenticity. Do you have an actual photo of this alleged coin? In a passage from <b>The Museum of Countermarks on Roman Coins</b>, see link below, the author states the countermark NCAPR appears on a dupondius of Vespasian, without illustrating the actual coin. He also suggests the countermark could translate <i>&quot;Nerva Caesar Augustus Probavit&quot;. </i>In an article posted on the internet by ArmstrongEconomics.com, the author also believes the &quot;Nerva&quot; translation more accurate.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]904365[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="http://www.romancoins.info/CMK-Nero&amp;later.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.romancoins.info/CMK-Nero&amp;later.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.romancoins.info/CMK-Nero&amp;later.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I don&#039;t know if we&#039;ll ever know what <b>NCAPR</b> means but it&#039;s been fun reading about ever ones speculations <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie8" alt=":D" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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