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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Justin Lee, post: 3094261, member: 87404&quot;]Just received a package from a recent purchase (more to come in the coming days) and I decided to do a little bit more comparison on this Alexander Severus denarius I got.</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]781471[/ATTACH] </p><p><b>Severus Alexander</b> Denarius, struck AD 231 at Rome mint. </p><p>Obv: IMP ALEXANDER PIVS AVG, laureate and draped bust right. </p><p>Rev: PROVIDENTIA AVG, Providentia standing left, holding grain ears over modius in right hand, anchor in left. </p><p>Ref: RIC IV 252</p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s not terribly uncommon at all and it&#039;s in pretty decent shape.&nbsp; But when looking on acsearch I noticed that the tie at the end of the laurel was different than any of the first handfuls I was seeing (shorter ties, both going at an angle left, and none of the tie ends going back right across the neck/shoulder). So I kept on scrolling and scrolling and eventually found a match for my <u><b>obverse</b></u> die:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]781474[/ATTACH] </p><p><i><font size="3"><a href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=170670" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=170670" rel="nofollow">https://www.cngcoins.com/Coin.aspx?CoinID=170670</a>&nbsp; (Photo from CNG)</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p><br /></p><p>And then I went hunting for my <u><b>reverse</b></u> die match, and low-and-behold I found that too:</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]781475[/ATTACH] </p><p><i><font size="3"><a href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=548&amp;lot=3157" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=548&amp;lot=3157" rel="nofollow">https://www.numisbids.com/n.php?p=lot&amp;sid=548&amp;lot=3157</a>&nbsp; (Photo from Gorny &amp; Mosch)</font></i></p><p><br /></p><p>Anyway, I thought it was kinda exciting to find siblings of my coin.&nbsp; Here they are side-by-side for comparison:</p><p>[ATTACH=full]781477[/ATTACH] </p><p><br /></p><p>I also read up a bit more on die linking from Doug here: <a href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/dielink.html" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/dielink.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.forumancientcoins.com/dougsmith/dielink.html</a></p><p><br /></p><p>Share your own die linked and/or matched coins?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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