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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Severus Alexander, post: 7955381, member: 84744&quot;]Sorry to be a doubter here, but I don&#039;t really agree with such an easygoing damnatio classification.&nbsp; For one thing, on your coin the scrape exhibits less patination at its edges suggesting the damage came long after the coin was buried.&nbsp; (Plough scrapes are pretty common.)&nbsp; But even if the patination was uniform, why should we think this was an act of damnatio rather than just random damage?</p><p><br /></p><p>The Geta erasure you show is clearly intentional damnatio.&nbsp; I&#039;ve seen a few other coins with multiple scrapes clearly targeting the portrait, or portrait &amp; name, and leaving other parts of the coin alone - those are plausibly damnatios.&nbsp; I&#039;m very doubtful of less obvious cases. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie10" alt=":oops:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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