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<p>[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4552925, member: 19463"]RIC 346 is obverse code G5 which is a right facer. Yours is RIC 347, bust G5L facing Left and a C2. I believe mine is a 372 (G3=common as dirt) adding a dot before the STR (second officina) but loses enough mintmark that it is not really identifiable. </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1127340[/ATTACH]</p><p>My coin was given to me for free in 2000 as a bonus with another purchase and probably its ID muddle had something to do with that gift. The question here is whether your coin with so many cleaning scratches is better because the ID is clear. A note in RIC mentions that a few of the 347 had a head of Medusa on the shield. Yours has some bumps there but I am not sure that I could talk myself into it being a Medusa. I hope you did not polish it away. Mine has the optional (mentioned in footnote) sash across the bust but no statistics are given as to the rarity of that. I definitely do not have a Medusa. </p><p><br /></p><p>Comment: Clean gently.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="dougsmit, post: 4552925, member: 19463"]RIC 346 is obverse code G5 which is a right facer. Yours is RIC 347, bust G5L facing Left and a C2. I believe mine is a 372 (G3=common as dirt) adding a dot before the STR (second officina) but loses enough mintmark that it is not really identifiable. [ATTACH=full]1127340[/ATTACH] My coin was given to me for free in 2000 as a bonus with another purchase and probably its ID muddle had something to do with that gift. The question here is whether your coin with so many cleaning scratches is better because the ID is clear. A note in RIC mentions that a few of the 347 had a head of Medusa on the shield. Yours has some bumps there but I am not sure that I could talk myself into it being a Medusa. I hope you did not polish it away. Mine has the optional (mentioned in footnote) sash across the bust but no statistics are given as to the rarity of that. I definitely do not have a Medusa. Comment: Clean gently.[/QUOTE]
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