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<p>[QUOTE="Andrew McCabe, post: 7970148, member: 90666"]yeah I just added another aes signatum bar to my collection, actually the second example of this bar that I've owned:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]1382435[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>a small piece was chipped off my acquisition in ancient times but the legend ROMANOM and Pegasus remain fully visible (in parts, as a curate's egg). The British Museum bar, very similar to mine (note relative placement of final letter M and lower rear Pegasus legs), is shown below</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1382436[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>Here's a picture of my other Crawford 4 aes signatum bar, superimposed on the BM bar. Common enough type if I have duplicates. Or perhaps not, today's new bar may be from the same original</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]1382437[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>The trick to identifying aes signatum bars from random aes rude is that they are always 10-12mm thick with flat (excepting the design) parallel sides[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Andrew McCabe, post: 7970148, member: 90666"]yeah I just added another aes signatum bar to my collection, actually the second example of this bar that I've owned: [ATTACH=full]1382435[/ATTACH] a small piece was chipped off my acquisition in ancient times but the legend ROMANOM and Pegasus remain fully visible (in parts, as a curate's egg). The British Museum bar, very similar to mine (note relative placement of final letter M and lower rear Pegasus legs), is shown below [ATTACH=full]1382436[/ATTACH] Here's a picture of my other Crawford 4 aes signatum bar, superimposed on the BM bar. Common enough type if I have duplicates. Or perhaps not, today's new bar may be from the same original [ATTACH=full]1382437[/ATTACH] The trick to identifying aes signatum bars from random aes rude is that they are always 10-12mm thick with flat (excepting the design) parallel sides[/QUOTE]
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