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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;dougsmit, post: 1526985, member: 19463&quot;]Definitely laurel.&nbsp; This is Oak on a sestertius:</p><p><a href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=201261" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=201261" rel="nofollow">http://www.acsearch.info/record.html?id=201261</a></p><p><br /></p><p>I do not get to see many coins of this bracket but do not recall seeing a dupondius with oak.&nbsp; It does bother me that many coins in this bracket have been tooled and most at least smoothed making it an area only to be purchased from a dealer of the highest ability and reputation.&nbsp; Since my experience with the coins is from photos, I fear what I expect is colored by having seen tooled coins.&nbsp; I did notice that acsearch had another oak sestertius with a little wear that made it harder to separate except from the leaf at the very top end.&nbsp; </p><p><br /></p><p>IMHO:&nbsp; If you bought such a coin from a top end dealer at what I assume to be a top end price, you deserve top end service.&nbsp; That should include answering questions like your one on oak/laurel long after that purchase and certainly as long as you remain a regular customer of theirs.&nbsp; I encourage you to make use of what you pay for when you buy from the big dogs and to pick their brains on every such matter.&nbsp; Then you can come here and share it with little guys like me who would like to learn what you have gained beyond simply the coin.&nbsp;&nbsp; I don&#039;t mind such questions but we here not the best persons to ask.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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